Inherit is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INHERIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to receive by legal succession
• receive (money, property, or a title) as an heir at the death of the previous holder
• receive or be left with (a situation, object, etc.) from a predecessor or former owner
• come into possession of (belongings) from someone else
• come into possession of (something) as a right (especially in biblical translations and allusions)
• receive (money etc) from someone who has died
• To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father\'s title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
• To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.
• To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
• To put in possession of.
• To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
• obtain from someone after their death
• receive from a predecessor
• receive by genetic transmission
• derive (a quality, characteristic, or predisposition) genetically from one's parents or ancestors

Words related to INHERIT

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How to use INHERIT in a sentence

• We inherit our dispositions from Adam, as well as from our parents and a long ancestral line.
• I believe that it is those who patiently wait on the Lord, and not the discontented who fret themselves till they do evil, who will inherit the land, and be refreshed in peace.
• But in the cities of these nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.
• This say I brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
• To complete the prosperity and power of this latter branch, it was soon destined to inherit the entire dominions of the other.
• Augustine is under the Spanish rule, and we know not that they will permit an Englishman even to inherit property there.
• He may inherit certain tastes, but he does not inherit temptation.
• You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them.
• It tends to reappear in his children, who either inherit it or have their own intellectual powers stimulated in the bracing atmosphere it has created.
• The second treats of feeling and thinking, the mind and the brain, our senses and sensations, sleep and dreams, the qualities we inherit from our parents, and life and death.
• Women should never have the free disposition of wealth, strictly so-called, which they may inherit, such as capital, houses, and estates.
• Weston by a former marriage, who bears the name, lives under the patronage, and is to inherit the fortune of a rich uncle.
• Blessed is the man who has no family, for he shall inherit wealth.
• You say I have a negro side to my character, which I inherit from my mother.
• These were generally the younger sons of sovereigns or chieftains who lived upon the land, the elder brothers remaining at home to inherit the throne or the paternal inheritance.
• Now the offspring can certainly inherit from each parent, and hence the hereditary traits must be associated with some part of the cell which is derived from both.
• As we shall see later, it is very necessary in the building of the living machine for each individual to inherit characters from more than one individual.
• The peasants still inherit some of the awe with which the sacred tree was held in former days, and they are loth to hurt it with the loss of a single leaf.
• It is, therefore, perhaps not to be wondered at, considering the important status assigned to women by the Khasis, that women should inherit the property and not men.
• Here the wife and children would inherit the acquired property, the youngest daughter obtaining the largest share of such property on the death of the wife.
• There he remained until Amfortas died, when he was called back to Montsalvatch to inherit his possessions, among which was the Holy Grail.
• All matter, all spirit, All fashion, all frame, Receive and inherit Their strength from the same.
• In the event of the death of Sir Burnham, then Roger would inherit the property, and complete disaster would be our lot.

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