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Definition of claiming : of Claim

Synonyms:

professing, propounding, accepting, ratifying, pledging, validating, contending, avouching, admitting, declaring, promising, corroborating, expressing, maintaining, sustaining, submitting, endorsing, assuring, warranting, verifying, certifying, acknowledging, testifying, adjuring, approving, affirming, supporting, proclaiming, stating, averring, attesting, pronouncing, asserting, setting down

holding, owning, possessing, monopolizing, having

defrauding, counterfeiting, imitating, forging, covering, bluffing, masquerading, falsifying, posing, pretending, showing, staging, deceiving, faking, disguising, affecting, impersonating

bidding, competing, aspiring, applying, hoping, seeking, petitioning

netting, pocketing, accumulating, procuring, landing, taking, fetching, collecting, amassing, getting, obtaining, garnering, heaping, incurring, scoring, receiving, harvesting, buying, wrangling, winning, cornering, acquiring, securing, adding, assuming, annexing, retrieving, luring, reaping, catching, capturing, palming, bagging, purchasing

Usage examples:

• That is, I might have it for the claiming. - "John Halifax, Gentleman", Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
• One time his old friends, the Mascoutins, rose against him, claiming that he had killed one of their warriors. - "Stories of the Badger State", Reuben Gold Thwaites.
• His poor master may be claiming the last kind office from him- His heart perhaps is breaking. - "The Gamester (1753)", Edward Moore Commentator: Charles H. Peake Phillip R. Wikelund.