[
US
/ˌɪnˈhɛɹət/
]
[ UK /ɪnhˈɛɹɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnhˈɛɹɪt/ ]
VERB
-
obtain from someone after their death
I inherited a castle from my French grandparents -
receive from a predecessor
The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair -
receive by genetic transmission
I inherited my good eyesight from my mother
How To Use inherit In A Sentence
- Alcohol abuse can be inherited but researchers had found few genes directly linked to it. The Sun
- It should be appreciated that brothers, sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters are not entitled to any share of the inheritance when children and parents of the deceased are alive.
- There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns. How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone
- Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform. Comments for Azure Flame
- In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
- Finally, this paper explains what is the spirit of Marxism which Derrida always asks us to inherit, and what is the relationship between his deconstructionism and Marxism.
- The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- The Dominion through her Indian officers and her mounted constabulary is showing herself the inheritress of these traditions. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
- The meek shall inherit the earth.
- Hart's good - bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited.