Definition of claim someone's life
:to cause someone's death
- the fatal illness that claimed her life
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claim
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: to ask for especially as a right
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: to call for : require
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: take
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: a demand for something due or believed to be due
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: a right to something
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: an assertion open to challenge
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someone
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: some person : somebody
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life
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: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
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: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
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: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
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: of or relating to animate being
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: lifelong
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: using a living model
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