claim someone's life

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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. To lead to someone's death.
    • 2020 June 12, Tiffanie Drayton, “I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.”, in The New York Times:
      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 like her.

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