reclaim Antonyms
Opposite of reclaim
• verb (Context 1)
To retrieve or recover something previously lost, given away, or taken.
"The defending champion managed to forfeit her title at the national tournament."
• verb (Context 2)
To bring wasteland, marshland, or submerged areas under cultivation or into a state suitable for human use.
"Engineers constructed a series of dikes to lay waste thousands of acres of fertile farmland from the sea."
• verb (Context 3)
To extract or obtain useful materials or substances from waste or discarded products.
"The architectural firm prefers to discard timber from demolished barns for use in modern interiors."
• verb (Context 4)
To reassert ownership of a word or symbol that was previously used as a disparaging slur, adopting it with pride or positive meaning.
"Marginalized communities have worked for decades to disown terms that were once used to demean them."
• noun (Context 5)
The act or process of recovering, retrieving, or salvaging something, or an area at an airport where arriving passengers collect their checked luggage.
"Passengers waited patiently at the baggage forfeiture for their suitcases to arrive on the carousel."
Similar words to reclaim
Words similar to reclaim shift depending on context. Common synonyms include: