Synonyms of the word

reclaim

• v. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
• v. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
• v. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
• v. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
• v. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
• v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
• v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
• n. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
• n. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
• n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

domesticate

• v. (transitive) To make domestic.
• v. (transitive) To make fit for domestic life.
• v. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
• v. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
• v. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one…
• n. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

domesticise

• v. Alternative form of domesticize.

domesticize

• v. To make domestic; domesticate.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

recover

• v. (transitive) To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
• v. (transitive) To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To get better from; to get over.
• v. (intransitive) To get better, regain one's health.
• v. (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation.
• v. (transitive, law) To gain by legal process.
• n. (obsolete) Recovery.
• n. (military) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and…
• v. To cover again.
• v. (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

rectify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (an organ or part of the body).
• v. (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
• v. (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To correct (someone who is mistaken).
• v. (transitive, geodesy, now historical) To adjust (a globe) in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed…
• v. (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
• v. (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky,…

recycle

• v. (transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.
• v. (transitive) To reuse as a whole.
• v. (transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.

reform

• n. The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct…
• v. (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring…
• v. (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

regenerate

• v. (transitive) To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner.
• v. (transitive) To revitalize.
• v. (transitive, biology) To replace lost or damaged tissue.
• v. (intransitive) To become reconstructed.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a spiritual rebirth.
• adj. Spiritually reborn.
• adj. (obsolete) Reproduced.

repossess

• v. (law) To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
• v. (dated, reflexive) To gain back possession of.

reprocess

• v. To process again.

reuse

• n. The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
• n. (computing) code re-use indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used…
• v. To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).

tame

• adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
• adj. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
• adj. Not exciting.
• adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
• adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• v. (transitive) to make something tame.
• v. (intransitive) to become tame.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute;…