English Dictionary

reclaim

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪˈkleɪm/

動詞

他動詞 古風 古語 廃用 稀用 スコットランド英語 自動詞

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use. / (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. / (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

日本語の意味

土地を使用可能な状態へと戻すために再生すること / 廃棄物から有用な製品を回収して再利用すること / 何かを取り戻す、または再所有すること

After the factory closed, volunteers worked together to reclaim the contaminated farmland so it could be used for crops again.

工場が閉鎖された後、ボランティアたちは汚染された農地を再生して再び作物に利用できるように取り組んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

意味（2）

(transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

意味（3）

(transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

意味（4）

(transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.

意味（5）

(transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

an eagle well reclaimed

意味（6）

(transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

意味（7）

(transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not bear it.

意味（8）

(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

Yet would he not perswaded be for ought, Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.

意味（9）

(intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

意味（10）

(sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

reclaims （ present singular third-person ）

reclaiming （ participle present ）

reclaimed （ participle past ）

reclaimed （ past ）