Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

claim someone's life

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables: claim -some-one's life
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To lead to someone's death.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

claims someone's life (present, singular) claiming someone's life (participle, present) claimed someone's life (participle, past) claimed someone's life (past)

Phrases

take someone's life

Frequently Paired Words

take someone's life

Questions

What does claim someone's life mean?: To lead to someone's death.

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