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claim
Synonyms and Antonyms of claim
1
an entitlement to something
2
a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something
3
a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something
4
something that someone insists upon having
claim
Synonyms and Antonyms of claim
1
to state as a fact usually forcefully
put forth
2
to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority
3
to deprive of life
bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]
annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite
assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate
euthanize (also euthanatize), put down
do away with, do for [chiefly British], make away with
4
to have as a requirement
call for
Synonym Discussion of claim
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- demanded payment of the debt
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- claimed the right to manage his own affairs
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- the patient requires constant attention
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- exacts absolute loyalty
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