lc27
To take ownership. Consent is not necessary and to often cast to the wayside. Be bold, take something into your own hands and claim it as your own. Claim love, claim a heart, claim a person. Or claim responsibility.
Too often abused - Benefit claims and Insurance have ruined what should be a word for standing up and taking what you want without shame or unnecessary thinking or doing.
Grasp something with both hands and make it your own.
Assert, declare and maintain, this is me and this is mine. Argue is you have to although arguments and vulgar and should be avoided.