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claimnoun an entitlement to somethingI'm announcing my claim to that last slice of pizza call, dibs, pretense(or pretence), pretension, right birthright, prerogative, titlefavor, privilegerefusal disclaimer, quitclaim, release, waiver a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of somethinga shareholder has a claim in the business a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of somethingGalileo's claim that the moon has a very irregular surface and thus is not the perfect sphere that the ancients had imagined affirmation, assertion, asseveration, avouchment, avowal, declaration, insistence, profession, protestation allegationannouncement, proclamation, pronouncementargument, justification, rationalization, reasonconfirmation, reaffirmation, reconfirmation, vindication disavowal disclaimerchallenge, dispute, questionconfutation, disproof, rebuttal, refutationcontradiction, denial, negation something that someone insists upon havingyoung children make great claims on their parents' time demand, dun, importunity, requisition, ultimatum desire, request, want, wishdrive, need, requirement, stipulationbasic, essential, mustimpositioncondition, provision claimverbto state as a fact usually forcefullypeople who claim that they have been kidnapped by aliens from other worlds affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess, protest, purport, warrant announce, broadcast, proclaimargue, rationalize, reasonconfirm, justify, vindicatedefend, persevere, support, upholdreaffirm, reassert put forth deny, gainsay abandondisavow, disclaim, disown, negate, negative, reject, repudiatechallenge, dispute, questionconfute, disprove, rebut, refutecontradict, counter to ask for (something) earnestly or with authorityafter many years had passed, he suddenly appeared to claim his inheritance call (for), clamor (for), command, demand, enjoin, exact, insist (on), press (for), quest, stipulate (for) ask, plead (for), request, wantcry (for), necessitate, need, require, take, warrantrequisitionimposebadger, dun, harass, hound give up, relinquish, surrender, yield to deprive of lifecancer claims hundreds of thousands of Americans each year carry off, croak(slang), destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, slay, take 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, smiteassassinate, execute, martyr, terminateeuthanize(also euthanatize), put downsuicide do away with, do for(chiefly British), make away with animate raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revivenurture to have as a requirementcaring for her three small children claims virtually all of her time bear, challenge, demand, necessitate, need, require, take, want, warrant entail, involveask, beg, clamor (for), cry (for)hurt (for), lackcommand, enjoin, exact, insist, press, quest, stipulate call for have, hold own, possess v.demand, claim, require, exact mean to ask or call for something as due or as necessary.demand implies peremptoriness and insistence and often the right to make requests that are to be regarded as commands.demanded payment of the debt claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one's own or one's right.claimed the right to manage his own affairs require suggests the imperativeness that arises from inner necessity, compulsion of law or regulation, or the exigencies of the situation.the patient requires constant attention exact implies not only demanding but getting what one demands.exacts absolute loyalty in the 14th century |