(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
(v./.) To proclaim.
(v./.) To call or name.
(v./.) To assert; to maintain.
(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A loud call.
Example Sentences:
(1) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(2) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(3) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
(4) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(5) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(6) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(7) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(8) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(9) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(10) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(11) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(12) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(13) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(14) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(16) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(17) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(18) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(19) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(20) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
Declaim
Definition:
(v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
(v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
(v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
(v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Click to view The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a surprise appearance on Beyoncé's latest album , released on iTunes this morning, declaiming: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
(2) He’s not just a straight-talker, he’s a man who reliably says the things politicians dream their opponents will be caught muttering within range of forgotten radio-mics – except he declaims them on a podium in front of thousands.
(3) The charge sheet was stunning: "He has corrupted his hands and sullied his government with bribes," declaimed Burke in his opening speech to the hearing.
(4) Favourite lines are a very personal affair, but members of my family are liable to declaim "I must have a charcoal biscuit, which is good for me", "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing", "Here's your arsenic, dear," or "Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
(5) 1976’s awesome Station to Station found him in Wagnerian mode, imperiously gazing over mountains and oceans, declaiming “the European canon is here” while “driving like a demon” between the stations (sephiroth) of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, “from Kether to Malkuth”.
(6) They get drunk, they go punting on the canals, they recite passages from Shakespeare, they declaim lines from Chaucer to dismayed cows, who wonder where all of this is leading.
(7) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(8) When I Google the phrase I get Burberry's website, so I try 'British values' and the first entry is Tony Blair declaiming the 'core British values of fair play, creativity, tolerance and an outward-looking approach to the world'.
(9) Thomas stretches out his sentences into great, rolling, relentless waves, or crushes words together into compound coinages as the voices whisper and declaim: the play is bawdy, tragic, lyrical, sly, odd, familiar, broad and deep by turns.
(10) An MA graduate who can speak fluent English but who prefers to declaim in Gujarati or Hindi as he did in London last night, Mr Modi is technically savvy, and usually answers his own email.
(11) "It was the night before New Year's … " he declaims over an icy RZA production.
(12) Arena's main soliloquy is breathtaking: wearing a face-painted mask of kaleidoscopic colours and in drag (a red dress), his character declaims a kind of manifesto: "I wish to live in the drama of schism, of division … Live for a different idea, cultivate love for another possibility unforeseen, full of attraction and danger, necessary, inevitable, fatal... " Written by Punzo, made rhetorical by Arena, who speaks his lines with a mixture of mockery and defiance, across a range of facial expression that excites as much as it discomforts.
(13) So I wasn't surprised to read in Simon Callow's Charles Dickens and The Great Theatre of The World , that the author used to declaim passages aloud to his family after he'd written them.
(14) They will be playing to different galleries, declaiming their positions to their peers in the chamber, but also to domestic audiences.
(15) Thus declaimed Apple marketing boss "Big" Phil Schiller as he provided a rare sneak peak of a forthcoming Apple product: the new Mac Pro.
(16) On the higher end of the cultural scale, V declaims Shakespeare, and in honour of Guy Fawkes's subversion in the age of James I, reels off lots of Macbeth.
(17) • Readers who have found themselves persuaded this week by the measured insights of Ukip donor Demetri Marchessini, who purchased an ad in the Daily Telegraph to declaim on the subject of homosexuality ("there is no such word as 'homophobic', it cannot be found in any dictionary") are no doubt anxious to hear more from the Greek businessman and self-styled polemicist.
(18) I think, retrospectively, all this should have been declaimed in French.
(19) Oh you terrorists, you will be defeated, defeated, defeated!” the presenter declaimed.
(20) The introduction still packs an emotional punch as it declaims: “Those of us who lived those unique and unforgettable days, days destined to light up the history of the world, will never lose the memory of them.” Behind the counter, Carmen is the current custodian of those memories.