to claim

Examples

• All

• Now it's up to Doc Pol to do something fast so the disease doesn't claim any more lives.

  Mars (2024)

• Also, during the 100th Congress, death and retirement claimed four of HASC's seven subcommittee chairmen.

  Academic text (1990)

• This went on for years as he claimed more and more victims.

  Megyn Kelly

• "White Death claims more lives!"

  Death Tunnel (2005)

• Fire claims lives, but fire saves more lives than it claims in the human race.

• But would that do justice to a disaster that claimed the lives of 1,517 people?

  Academic text (2013)

• The catastrophe claimed the lives of 2,753 victims.

  9/11: Minute by Minute (2021)

• Five years later, influenza claimed the life of Jefferson Franklin Long, a month shy of his sixty-fifth birthday.

  Academic text (2011)

• 1928: Joseph Stalin begins forced modernization of the Soviet Union; resulting famines claim 25 million.

  Academic text (2011)

• The earthquake claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the affected region.

Synonyms

T

to take

vsto claim

∞ 2.8

Cause someone to die or suffer great harm

occur as events and cause unwanted loss rather than deliberate acts

Antonyms

P

to protect

∞ 1.0

To keep someone or something safe from harm

S

to save

∞ 1.0

Rescue someone or something from danger

Phrasal Verbs

L

to lay claim

18 4.4

Say you have a right to something like land or money

F

to file a claim

• Formal

9 3.5

Ask an insurance company for money after you lose or damage something

B

to buttress a claim

• Formal

6.7

To give more evidence or reasons to make a claim stronger

C

to claim cooties

• Baby Talk

9.7

Say you have an imaginary germ that other children can catch as a joke

Compounds

I

insurance claim

16 3.3

A request to a company for money after damage or loss

B

baggage claim

• US

12 2.1

An area in an airport where arriving passengers pick up their checked bags

C

claim form

• Formal

3 2.9

A document you fill in to ask for money back from an insurance company

C

claim agent

• US

1 4.8

A person who looks at insurance claims and helps arrange payments

C

claim jumper

• Archaic

1 9.9

A person who moves onto someone else's land, often a mining claim, without permission

W

wage claim

• Formal

1 3.4

An official request by workers for higher pay

I

incendiary claim

• Literature

7.7

A statement that makes many people very angry or upset

P

pay claim

• Jargon

4.4

A formal request by workers, usually through their union, for higher pay

T

twaddlemonger claim

• Archaic

9.9

A statement that is foolish or has no proof

How Deadly

to annihilate

• NSFW

63 7.5

to slaughter

60 3.9

to claim

120 6.9

to kill

• NSFW

∞ 1.0

to injure

53 1.6

Surface Forms

Etymology