Claim
Claim verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
File
File verb - To make smooth by friction.
How words are described
| old | old claim | old file |
| special | special claim | special file |
| right | right claim | right file |
| current | current claim | current file |
| Other adjectives: original, fake, many, true, single, entire, main, final, next, last, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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However, Epitaph rejected the claim, and Fields did not file a lawsuit to pursue the claim further.
Source: Music / The Offspring -
In one episode, he even appears as two different people in the same workplace, so he can file a sexual harassment claim against himself.
Source: New Job as the Plot Demands -
Unless Janie had the good sense to file her claim as an accident rather than her overstressed, mentally ill friend's nutjob imaginary companion.
Source: Film / Drop Dead Fred
Cite this Source
File and Claim. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/file
Claim & File. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/file>.
File or Claim. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/file.
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