claim someone's life

English

Verb

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^[1]:

     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.

See also

• take someone's life

Further reading

• “claim someone's life”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “claim someone's life”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.