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claimsnounpl. of claim an entitlement to somethingI'm announcing my claim to that last slice of pizza calls, dibs, pretenses(or pretences), pretensions, rights birthrights, prerogatives, titlesfavors, privilegesrefusals disclaimers, quitclaims, releases, waivers 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 affirmations, assertions, asseverations, avouchments, avowals, declarations, insistences, professions, protestations allegationsannouncements, proclamations, pronouncementsarguments, justifications, rationalizations, reasonsconfirmations, reaffirmations, reconfirmations, vindications disavowals disclaimerschallenges, disputes, questionsconfutations, disproofs, rebuttals, refutationscontradictions, denials, negations something that someone insists upon havingyoung children make great claims on their parents' time demands, duns, importunities, requisitions, ultimatums(or ultimata) desires, requests, wants, wishesdrives, needs, requirements, stipulationsbasics, essentials, mustsimpositionsconditions, provisions claimsverbpresent tense third-person singular of claimto state as a fact usually forcefullypeople who claim that they have been kidnapped by aliens from other worlds affirms, alleges, asserts, avers, avouches, avows, contends, declares, insists, maintains, professes, protests, purports, warrants announces, broadcasts, proclaimsargues, rationalizes, reasonsconfirms, justifies, vindicatesdefends, perseveres, supports, upholdsreaffirms, reasserts puts forth denies, gainsays abandonsdisavows, disclaims, disowns, negates, negatives, rejects, repudiateschallenges, disputes, questionsconfutes, disproves, rebuts, refutescontradicts, counters to ask for (something) earnestly or with authorityafter many years had passed, he suddenly appeared to claim his inheritance calls (for), clamors (for), commands, demands, enjoins, exacts, insists (on), presses (for), quests, stipulates (for) asks, pleads (for), requests, wantscries (for), necessitates, needs, requires, takes, warrantsrequisitionsimposesbadgers, duns, harasses, hounds gives up, relinquishes, surrenders, yields to deprive of lifecancer claims hundreds of thousands of Americans each year carries off, croaks(slang), destroys, dispatches, does in, fells, kills, slays, takes bumps off, butchers, cuts down, finishes, gets, ices(slang), knocks off, murders, neutralizes, offs(slang), puts away, rubs out, scrags, snuffs, takes out, wastes, whacks(slang)annihilates, blots out, decimates, kills off, massacres, mows, slaughters, smitesassassinates, executes, martyrs, terminateseuthanizes(also euthanatizes), puts downsuicides does away with, does for(chiefly British), makes away with animates raises, restores, resurrects, resuscitates, revivesnurtures to have as a requirementcaring for her three small children claims virtually all of her time bears, challenges, demands, necessitates, needs, requires, takes, wants, warrants entails, involvesasks, begs, clamors (for), cries (for)hurts (for), lackscommands, enjoins, exacts, insists, presses, quests, stipulates calls for has, holds owns, possesses |