claim

claim is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. verb. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
2. verb. To proclaim.
3. verb. To call or name.
4. verb. To assert; to maintain.
5. intransitive verb. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
6. noun. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
7. noun. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
8. noun. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
9. noun. A loud call.
10. noun. demand for something as rightful or due

    "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"

11. noun. an informal right to something

    "his claim on her attentions"

    "his title to fame"

    Synonyms: title

12. noun. an established or recognized right

    "a strong legal claim to the property"

    "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"

    Synonyms: title

13. noun. an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

    "his claim asked for damages"

14. noun. an assertion that something is true or factual

    "his claim that he was innocent"

    "evidence contradicted the government's claims"

15. noun. a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

    Synonyms: call

16. verb. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

    "the accident claimed three lives"

    "The hard work took its toll on her"

    Synonyms: exact, take

17. verb. assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing

    "He claimed that he killed the burglar"

18. verb. lay claim to; as of an idea

    "She took credit for the whole idea"

    Synonyms: take

19. verb. ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

    "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"

20. verb. demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

    "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"

    "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"

    Synonyms: arrogate

Synonyms

title, call, exact, take, arrogate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in claim:

clima, malic

Common word forms

claims, claimed, claimer, claiming, claimable, claimless

Words from these letters

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