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1. claim
verb. ['ˈkleɪm'] assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.
Antonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Claim
- postgame
- overcame
- inflame
- ballgame
- rename
- defame
- became
- aflame
- swaim
- graeme
- frame
- fraim
- flame
- flaim
- brame
- blame
- ashame
- tame
- shame
- sejm
- same
- rhame
- name
- mayme
- mame
- maim
- lame
- kaim
- haim
- game
How do you pronounce claim?
Pronounce claim as kleɪm.
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Sentences with claim
1. Noun, singular or mass
And keep in mind that your insurance will unfortunately increase each time you have to make a claim.
2. Verb, base form
Anyone can steal them and claim them as their own.
Quotes about claim
1. The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2. America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.
- Seth Shostak
3. Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
- Wole Soyinka
2. claim
noun. ['ˈkleɪm'] an assertion of a right (as to money or property).
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
3. claim
noun. ['ˈkleɪm'] an assertion that something is true or factual.
Synonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
4. claim
verb. ['ˈkleɪm'] demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.
Antonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
5. claim
verb. ['ˈkleɪm'] ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
Antonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
6. claim
noun. ['ˈkleɪm'] demand for something as rightful or due.
Synonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
7. claim
verb. ['ˈkleɪm'] lay claim to; as of an idea.
Antonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
8. claim
noun. ['ˈkleɪm'] an informal right to something.
Synonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
9. claim
noun. ['ˈkleɪm'] an established or recognized right.
Synonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
10. claim
verb. ['ˈkleɪm'] take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.
Antonyms
Etymology
- claimen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- claimer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))