reclaimEnglishOxford American Thesaurusreclaim verb 1 traveling expenses can be reclaimed: get back, claim back, have returned, recover, take back, regain, retrieve, recoup; rare recuperate. ▷antonyms forfeit. 2 Henrietta had reclaimed him from a life of vice: save, rescue, redeem, win back; reform. ▷antonyms abandon.