Synonyms for claim

verb

  1. To assert a claim to

    demand, lay claim to, stake out a claim, exact, challenge, claim as one's due, demand as a right, command, insist upon, pretend to, assert one's right to, make a stand, call upon one for, petition, ask for, call for, require, deserve, have dibs on*; see also require 2.

    Antonyms disclaim, renounce, abandon.

  2. To assert

    insist, maintain, allege, profess; see declare 1, pretend 1. See syn. study at require.

See claim in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


verb
  1. To assert one's right to:

    demand. Idiom: lay claim to. See give, owned, request
  2. To defend, maintain, or insist on the recognition of (one's rights, for example):

    assert, vindicate. See attack
  3. To put into words positively and with conviction:

    affirm, allege, argue, assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, contend, declare, hold, maintain, say, state. Idiom: have it. See affirm
  4. To ask for urgently or insistently:

    call for, demand, exact, insist on (or upon), require, requisition. Idiom: cry out for. See request
noun
  1. The act of demanding:

    call, cry, demand, exaction, requisition. See request
  2. A legitimate or supposed right to demand something as one's rightful due:

    pretense, pretension, title. (Slang) dibs. See owned, request
  3. A right or legal share in something:

    interest, portion, stake, title. See part
  4. The act of asserting positively:

    affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, averment, declaration, statement. See affirm

See claim in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms

claim pretense pretension title 

These nouns refer to a legitimate or asserted right to demand something as one's due: had a legal claim to the property; makes no pretense to scholarliness; justified pretensions to the presidency; has no title to our thanks.
See Also Synonyms at demand.

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