Word Meanings - RECLAIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECLAIM)

• Reform
• Amend
• ameliorate
• correct
• rectify
• better
• reclaim
• regenerate
• remodel
• reconstitute
• reorganize
• improve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECLAIM)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to RECLAIM)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• CORRECTIBLE; CORRECTABLE
  Capable of being corrected.
• CORRECTNESS
  The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
• REFORMATORY
  An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
• REFORMIST
  A reformer.
• RECTIFY
  To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. (more info) 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• TRANSPARENCE
  The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.
• SPARE
  1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.