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reclame

reclame is the obsolete form of reclaim.

Meaning of reclaim

Verb

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. (dated, transitive) 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.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...
  5. (archaic, transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
    • an eagle well reclaimed1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  6. (archaic, transitive) 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.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

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Forms of reclame

third-person singular presentreclames
present participlereclaming
past participlereclamed
pastreclamed

Words that rhyme with reclame

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Questions about reclame

What is reclame the obsolete form of?
Reclame is the obsolete form of reclaim.

Words near reclame in the dictionary

  1. reclamation
  2. reclamations
  3. reclamator
  4. reclamators
  5. reclamatory
  6. reclame
  7. reclamed
  8. reclaming
  9. reclamp
  10. reclamped
  11. reclamping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclame (page history and authors); reclaim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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