claim
/kleɪm/ verb A2- To demand ownership of.
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of. · The attacks claimed the lives of five people.· A fire claimed two homes.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition. · He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
Plural claim · He/she/it claims · Past claimed · Past participle claimed · -ing form claiming
Verb forms
- Base form
- claim
- He/she/it
- claims
- Past
- claimed
- Past participle
- claimed
- -ing form
- claiming
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“And you, too,” said he, “come, if you like, monsieur; you have a claim, being almost one of the family, and I will give as many rendezvous of that kind as I can find persons willing to accept them.”
In one respect you are right, for I am ready to quarrel with everyone today; but you have the first claim, M.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man’s inmost thoughts.
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