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verb

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɪˈkleɪm/, /ɹiːˈkleɪm/

noun

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹiːkleɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

動詞

reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)

1. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
2. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
3. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
4. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

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

   • 1609, Edward Hoby, A Letter to Mr. T[heophilus] H[iggons], late Minister: now Fugitive ... in answere of his first Motive:

     Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.

   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance:

     It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.

5. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     an eagle well reclaimed

6. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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

7. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him

   • 1719, Daniel Waterland, A Vindication of Christ's Divinit:

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

   • 1882, Alexander Bain, Biography of James Mill:

     At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.

8. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

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

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reclaim (countable and uncountable, plural reclaims)

1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame […] .

3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. Clipping of baggage reclaim.
5. Material recovered from something that has already been used.

   Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?

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• Maricle, Miracle, Ramciel, car mile, claimer, miracle