Word Finder - reclaiming

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To return land to a suitable condition for use.

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To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

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To claim something back; to repossess.

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To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

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To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

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To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

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To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

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To draw back; to give way.

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To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

The original flat shore is occupied by massive walls constructed for the reclaiming of land, as the hills prevent an inland extension of the city.

Recovery from heroin stems from the fear of conviction to the possibility of losing family and reclaiming faith in one's religion.

You have to put the emphasis on the fun and fashion, however, as a way of reclaiming what some people say jelly bracelets currently "signify."

For Fantasia, the show is all about reclaiming her position musically and claiming independence from her family.

She waited for him to go to his room to change before reclaiming the iPad with the goal of deleting that damn picture.

Vegetation of all sorts acts in a similar way, either in forming soil and assisting in breaking up rocks, in filling up shallow lakes, and even, like the mangrove, in reclaiming wide stretches of land from the sea.

It is probable that up to 1875, at least, there had been a larger outlay of labour, material and money, in reducing, levelling and reclaiming territory, and in straightening and widening thoroughfares 1 in Boston, than had been expended for the same purposes in all the other chief cities of the United States together.

The beds of these rivers, as well as that of the Danube, are continually changing, forming morasses and pools, and rendering the country near their banks marshy, Notwithstanding the work already done, such as canalizing and regulating the rivers, the erection of dams, &c., the problems of preventing inundations, and of reclaiming the marshes, have not yet been satisfactorily solved.

A new suburb was created by reclaiming land on the north foreshore, and another suburb was created on the eastern side of the canal.

The latter is an excellent method of reclaiming neglected trees.

Any Korean can become a landowner by reclaiming and cultivating unoccupied crown land for three years free of taxation, after which he pays taxes annually.

Other systems contemplated by the government were the Las Vegas project for reclaiming 10,000 acres near Las Vegas, the Urton Lake project for reclaiming 60,000 acres in the Pecos Valley, and the La Plata Valley project for irrigating about 40,000 acres in the northwestern part of New Mexico, 35 m.

Women, inflamed by his words, gave up their jewels and luxurious apparel, and young men married courtesans in the hope of reclaiming them.

The reclaiming and protecting of the riparian lands went on rapidly under the Romans, and in several places the rectangular divisions of the ground, still remarkably distinct, show the military character of some of the agricultural colonies.

Space can always be had for more dock room by reclaiming the east sands, where in the 17th and 18th centuries Leith Races were held, the theme of a humorous descriptive poem by Robert Fergusson..

At a very early period it would appear to have been covered with forest; but this having been in great measure destroyed, it became in great part a swamp. In 1627 King Charles I., who was lord of the island, entered into a contract with Cornelius Vermuyden, a Dutchman, for reclaiming the meres and marshes, and rendering them fit for tillage.

I have presented this information so that we can recognize all we are loosing and our task of reclaiming these commons.

We shall allow the reclaiming motion, recall the interlocutor reclaimed against and return the case to the Lord Ordinary to proceed as accords.

Cosmetic dentistry assists in reclaiming the beauty of your smile by treating the malformations of our teeth.