3. (verb)
reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one Synonyms: refine, recover, reclaim, right, repair, tame, renew, domesticize, regenerate, restore, correct, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, reform, revitalize, amend, straighten out, repossess, remedy, rejuvenate, remediate, see the light
4. (verb)
reclaim
- make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state Synonyms: domesticize, tame, reform, regenerate, repossess, domesticate, domesticise, recover, rectify
5. (verb)
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable Synonyms: recover, reclaim, chasten, naturalise, cultivate, domesticize, regenerate, naturalize, moderate, rectify, domesticise, domesticate, tone down, repossess, tame, reform, subdue