Claim
Claim verb - To deprive of life.
Usage example: cancer claims hundreds of thousands of Americans each year
Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Usage example: during the war more soldiers were killed by disease than anything else
How words are described
| good | good claim | good kill |
| special | special claim | special kill |
| best | best claim | best kill |
| particular | particular claim | particular kill |
| Other adjectives: original, fake, free, many, true, single, actual, real, big, decent, easy, major, final, outright, next, last, latter, recorded. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Shieldbearers are sympathetic and claim to be the land's defenders, but they need to conscript people and kill as an inevitable part of war.
Source: Video Game / Bravely Default - NPCs mention how, years ago, various groups sent squads of similar robots from the surface to claim the demon crown and kill the Mimigas.
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No less than three different Nazi agents are trying to find her and either claim the film, kill her, kill each other, or some combination of those.
Cite this Source
Kill and Claim. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/kill
Claim & Kill. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/kill>.
Kill or Claim. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/kill.
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