claimed

Meaning

of Claim

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

said taken won declared maintained assumed supposed territorial asserted attested reclaimed professed pretended ostensible avowed
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Antonyms

liberated

Phrases with the word

as claimed by be claimed by someone as claimed in not yet claimed claimed unduly counter-claimed

Anagrams

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Examples

We have never claimed equality of possessions, but we consider equality of rights and happiness to be necessary. Maximilien Robespierre

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. Federico Fellini

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. John Lennon

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Winston Churchill

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. Benjamin Tucker

Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. Chinua Achebe