reclaim

Verb

• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
  • He tames lions for the circus
    
  • reclaim falcons
    

• make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
  • The people reclaimed the marshes
    

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
  • The Church reformed me
    
  • reform your conduct
    

• reuse (materials from waste products)

• claim back

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  domesticate , domesticize , domesticise , tame , reform , regenerate , rectify , recover , repossess