reclaim
verb (used with object)
to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
unreclaimable
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a word derived from
reclaim.
Example Sentences
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Plotz: But what if the party is unreclaimable?
From Slate ● May 22, 2017
The heathy track between Bordeaux and the Basses Pyrénées; but also denoting uncultivated or unreclaimable spots.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
It still lies and probably will lie for centuries unreclaimed and unreclaimable for the uses of civilization.
From Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Stephen Leacock
On the other hand, it cannot be denied that part of that journey was through lands naturally barren, some desert wastes, much of which is still unreclaimed, some unreclaimable.
From Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method by Wm. Audley (William Audley) Maxwell
It all had the look of No Man's Land,—unreclaimed and unreclaimable.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton
