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  1. transitive verb To receive (property or a title, for example) from an ancestor by legal succession or will.
  2. transitive verb To receive by bequest or as a legacy.
  3. transitive verb To receive or take over from a predecessor: The new administration inherited the economic problems of the last four years.
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  • Since it's known that he's going to inherit, they see to it that he's been properly taught to do what must be done But no matter how well they teach him, he isn't necessarily the smartest member of his family, is he? —  Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2002
  • He'd always known that as the eldest son he would someday inherit, and his goal had been to make himself worthy of wearing his father's mantle. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • All these debts Gaius would inherit, and he had no way to pay. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • He knew he would inherit, aside from that house, two or three farms and he received enough money each month to be able to lend some to his friends. —  Maigret Afraid—70—Georges Simenon
  • I was fortunate enough to inherit, as a young man, a fair fortune, enough to enable me to do the things I wanted to do and become, if you want to call it that, an eccentric individual. —  160 - Colors For Murder
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  1. Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, to make heir to, from Late Latin inhērēditāre, to inherit : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Late Latin hērēditāre, to inherit (from Latin hērēs, hērēd-, heir; see ghē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English inheriten, enheriten, from Old French enheriter, inheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare, appoint as heir, Middle Latin also put in possession, inherit, from Latin in, in, + heres (hered-), heir: see heir and heritage.
 

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