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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

claim someone's life en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To lead to someone's death.
    • If she hadn’t moved from New Jersey to join me here, just months before the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States, she would have been working as a nurse on the front lines of a war with a disease that has disproportionately claimed the lives of people of color and health care workers like her. 2020 June 12, Tiffanie Drayton, “I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.”, in The New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
claims someone's life Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
claiming someone's life Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
claimed someone's life Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
claimed someone's life Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

take someone's life