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reclaim
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reclaim verb appropriate, develop, get back, rebuild, recall, recover, redeem, reestablish, regain, regenerate, reinstate, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, retake, retrieve
Associated concepts: reclaim land
See also: claim, collect, cure, demand, fix, meliorate, purge, reconstruct, recoup, recover, redeem, reform, rehabilitate, renew, repair, repossess, rescue

RECLAIM. To demand again, to insist upon a right; as, when a defendant for a consideration received from the plaintiff, has covenanted to do an act, and fails to do it, the plaintiff may bring covenant for the breach, or assumpsit to reclaim the consideration. 1 Caines, 47.



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Whitney Houston reclaims her life and her throne with the release of her new CD.
Crazy Glue" tells of a wife who reclaims her cheating husband by gluing every piece of furniture in their home in place, and gluing herself to the ceiling.
While understanding and appreciating the sixteenth-century origins of Luther's theology of the cross, Thomsen reclaims this focus of Luther's thought for the church in its present-day missionary engagement.
 
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