Synonyms:
reclamation, renewal, rehabilitation
Meaning: the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
Synonyms:
renewal
Meaning: the act of renewing
Usage examples
Other matters occurred which rendered the renewal of the attack improbable.
Never a word to reproach her for the unalterable; it should be as though there were no gap between the old love and its renewal in the present.
Her coming might be very well, if she accepted Archie; but he did not want to be troubled with any renewal of his responsibility respecting her, if, as was more probable, she should reject him.
It had soon become evident to Marcella, upon the renewal of her friendship with the Cravens, that Anthony's temper towards all men, especially towards social reformers and politicians, had developed into a mere impotent bitterness.
Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with Dr. Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.