| VERB | possession | lay claim, claim, arrogate | demand as being one's due or property |
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| Meaning | demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | claim, arrogate | |
| Narrower | arrogate, assign | make undue claims to having |
| pretend | Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | |
| requisition | demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | |
| Broader | request, ask for, bespeak, call for, quest | Express the need or desire for |
| Opposite | forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego | Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime |
| Similar to | claim, take | lay claim to |
| Spanish | atribuirse, reclamar, reivindicar | |
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