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Meanings of reclaim in English
To make obedient, docile and tractable; to train to follow orders of the owner.
Catalan
regenerar Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
Synonyms
Examples for "tame"
Examples for "tame"
1
State media and tame pro-government academics are increasingly aggressive in their response.
2
The animals were tame because they were not used to seeing men.
3
Gold's record run tame by 1980 standards Gold price at record levels?
4
The birds are tame and quite accomplished in the art of begging.
5
With slack still remaining in the labor market, wage inflation remains tame.
1
My dear fellow, how did the Normans domesticate the proud, numerous Saxons?
2
Take them home and domesticate them, and you will see surprising things.
3
There's no way you can domesticate these cats 100 per cent.
4
It's believed cats are the only domestic animals that humans didn't actively domesticate.
5
Why have we failed to domesticate such a prized food source as acorns?
1
Yes, that really was his only break in the case thus far.
2
Not a break in the ceiling; not a hole in the floor.
3
With the large increase in population came the break in the circle.
4
The anguish in her soul almost resented the break in the darkness.
5
A clear break in either direction would indicate the next major move.
Usage of reclaim in English
1
I want to... reclaim the connection between moral behaviour and political action.
2
And it worked, as Long said, to help him reclaim that mojo.
3
I want to... reclaim the connection between moral behavior and political action.
4
The fleet they sent to reclaim Valyria vanished in the Smoking Sea.
5
He's come to take us home where we can reclaim the throne.
6
Three days later four Comanches showed up, perhaps to reclaim their dead.
7
But nature can reclaim a landscape, if left to her own devices.
8
And he spent his days waiting for the chance to reclaim more.
9
Liverpool are poised to reclaim the lead in English football's Premier League.
10
And it is time for the Liberal Democrats to reclaim this space.
11
She said that if it lived the father could easily reclaim it.
12
However, it was too late to reclaim the bottle from the street.
13
Just as we can reclaim our space, we can indulge in time.
14
And if you have installer's remorse and want to reclaim your data?
15
We helped them reclaim their nation, and they helped us reclaim ours.
16
They ran from one place to another, trying to reclaim their mates.
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South Africa
Common
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
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