claimed someone's life

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)

1. (idiomatic) 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