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RECLAIMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reclaimed mean?
• RECLAIMED (adjective)
The adjective RECLAIMED has 1 sense:
1. delivered from danger
Familiarity information: RECLAIMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delivered from danger
Synonyms:
reclaimed; rescued
Similar:
saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)
Context examples
You will find her father a white-haired old man, said my aunt, though a better man in all other respects—a reclaimed man.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I had, by cross-ways and by- paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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