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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“I dare say your claim to sympathy is just as strong as mine.
Jones’s shopboy in the street, who had told her that they were not to send any more draughts to Netherfield, because the Miss Bennets were come away, when her civility was claimed towards Mr.
Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her, in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man often times his consequence.
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