Saturday, January 2, 2016

CLAIM

WORD: CLAIM

MEANING:
1. To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
2. To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.
3. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
4. To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.
5. demand, request, application

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. evidence contradicted the government's claims

PRONOUNCE:
claim - क्लेम / क्लैम

LINK: CLAIM

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