claim someone's life
claim someone's life verb: to lead to someone's death.
Verb
claim someone's life (third-person singular simple present claims someone's life, present participle claiming someone's life, simple past and past participle claimed someone's life)
- 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...2020 June 12, Tiffanie Drayton, “I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.”, in The New York Times
Forms of claim someone's life
| third-person singular present | claims someone's life |
|---|---|
| present participle | claiming someone's life |
| past participle | claimed someone's life |
| past | claimed someone's life |
Questions about claim someone's life
- What does claim someone's life mean?
- Claim someone's life means to lead to someone's death.
- What part of speech is claim someone's life?
- Claim someone's life is a verb.
- What is the past tense of claim someone's life?
- The past tense of claim someone's life is claimed someone's life.
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