reclaim

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reclaim/rɪˈkleɪm/

▶verb

• 1 retrieve or recover.

• 2 bring (waste land or land formerly under water) under cultivation.

  ■ recycle.

• 3 dated redeem from a state of vice.

  ■ archaic tame or civilize (an animal or person).

▶noun the action of reclaiming or being reclaimed.

– derivatives
reclaimable adjective,
reclaimer noun,
reclamation noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. reclamer, from L. reclamare ‘cry out against’, from re- ‘back’ + clamare ‘to shout’.