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Claim   /kleɪm/   Listen
Claim

noun
1.
An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
2.
An assertion that something is true or factual.  "Evidence contradicted the government's claims"
3.
Demand for something as rightful or due.
4.
An informal right to something.  Synonym: title.  "His title to fame"
5.
An established or recognized right.  Synonym: title.  "He had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate" , "He staked his claim"
6.
A demand especially in the phrase.  Synonym: call.
verb
(past & past part. claimed; pres. part. claiming)
1.
Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.  Antonym: disclaim.
2.
Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.  Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim.  "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"  Antonym: forfeit.
3.
Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
4.
Lay claim to; as of an idea.  Synonym: take.  Antonym: disclaim.
5.
Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.  Synonyms: exact, take.  "The hard work took its toll on her"



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"Claim" Quotes from Famous Books



... interpolations in the maritime code of nations at the mere will and pleasure of other Governments—we deny the right of any such interpolation, to any one or all the nations of the earth without our consent—we claim to have a voice in all alterations ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
... but thee, my Guilo! be content; The greediest heart can claim but present pleasure. The future is thy God's. The past is spent. To-day is thine; clasp ...
— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... was too greatly rejoiced at the success of my mission to be very severe or retributive in my behaviour just then. I therefore paid the full amount agreed upon, but directed Lobo to say that although I paid it I did not consider that Matadi was entitled to claim a single article in view of his unprovoked attack upon the schooner, and the miserable condition in which he had delivered up his captives. But I paid it in order that he might practically learn that an Englishman never breaks a promise that he has once made. And having ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... she is a woman now, and we have no claim on her. Because we've befriended her for years is the very reason we should not make our benefits a burden, but leave her free, and if she chooses to do this in spite of Archie, we must let her ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... his heart. In the experience of his sylvan life as a hunter Wyatt's peculiar and subtle temperament evolved certain fine-spun distinctions which were unique; a trapped thing had a special appeal to his commiseration that a creature ruthlessly slaughtered in the open was not privileged to claim. He did not accurately and in words discriminate the differences, but he felt that the captive had sounded all the gamut of hope and despair, shared the gradations of an appreciated sorrow that makes all souls akin and that even ...
— His Unquiet Ghost - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)


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