reclaim
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/icons/point.icon RESCUE, DELIVER, REDEEM, RANSOM, RECLAIM, SAVE mean to set free from confinement or danger.
RESCUE implies freeing from imminent danger by prompt or vigorous action.
e.g. rescued the crew of a sinking ship
DELIVER implies release usually of a person from confinement, temptation, slavery, or suffering.
e.g. delivered his people from bondage
REDEEM implies releasing from bondage or penalties by giving what is demanded or necessary.
e.g. job training designed to redeem school dropouts from chronic unemployment
RANSOM specifically applies to buying out of captivity.
e.g. tried to ransom the kidnap victim
RECLAIM suggests a bringing back to a former state or condition of someone or something abandoned or debased.
e.g. reclaimed long-abandoned farms
SAVE may replace any of the foregoing terms; it may further imply a preserving or maintaining for usefulness or continued existence.
e.g. an operation that saved my life
verb with object
1. retrieve or recover (something previously lost, given, or paid); obtain the return of:
«…から» 〈金銭･持ち物など〉の返還を請求する; 〈権力･名声など〉を取り戻す «from»
e.g. when Dennis emerged I reclaimed my room
e.g. he returned three years later to reclaim his title as director of advertising.
dated redeem (someone) from a state of vice; reform:
〈人〉を更正させる, 救う.
e.g. societies for reclaiming beggars and prostitutes.
archaic tame or civilize (an animal or person).
2. bring (waste land or land formerly under water) under cultivation:
〈森林･沼地など〉を造成［開拓, 干拓］する
e.g. (as adjective reclaimed) : reclaimed land
e.g. little money is available to reclaim and cultivate the desert.
recover (material) for reuse; recycle:
〈廃棄物など〉を再生再利用する.
e.g. a sufficient weight of plastic could easily be reclaimed.
noun
the action or process of reclaiming or being reclaimed:
e.g. beyond reclaim.
DERIVATIVES
reclaimable |rəˈklāməbəl, rēˈklāməbəl| adjective
reclaimer noun
ORIGIN
Middle English (used in falconry in the sense ‘recall’): from Old French reclamer, from Latin reclamare ‘cry out against’, from re- ‘back’ + clamare ‘to shout’.