(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ something that you have lost or that has been taken away from you, you succeed in getting it back.
In 1986, they got the right to ~ South African citizenship...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ an amount of money, for example tax that you have paid, you claim it back.
There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to ~ income tax.
VERB: V n
3.
When people ~ land, they make it suitable for a purpose such as farming or building, for example by draining it or by building a barrier against the sea.
The Netherlands has been ~ing farmland from water.
VERB: V n
4.
If a piece of land that was used for farming or building is ~ed by a desert, forest, or the sea, it turns back into desert, forest, or sea.
The diamond towns are gradually being ~ed by the desert...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n