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Synonyms for inherit
ɪnˈhɛr ɪtin·her·it

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  1. inherit

    Synonyms:
    occupy, possess, enjoy

    Antonyms:
    acquire, earn, gain, squander, alienate, dissipate, bequeath, leave, demise, devise

Princeton's WordNet

  1. inheritverb

    obtain from someone after their death

    "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"

  2. inheritverb

    receive from a predecessor

    "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"

  3. inheritverb

    receive by genetic transmission

    "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"

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  1. inheritverb

    Synonyms:
    take from ancestors, take by inheritance, come into possession of as an heir

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "inherit":

    inheriting, inheritance, succession, successor, legacy

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How to use inherit in a sentence?

  1. Peter Makovicky:

    Gualicho did not inherit this forelimb anatomy from an ancestor it shared with tyrannosaurs. Rather, it evolved independently in the two groups.

  2. American Indian Proverb:

    We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

  3. Rena Singer:

    Incredible things are going on in Rwanda when it comes to women's land rights, if women can't inherit land, we see the continuation of inequality between genders. The only way most poor people get resources in their lifetime is to inherit - they don't have the money to purchase land.

  4. Haida Indian saying:

    We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

  5. Wendell Berry:

    We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Actually appearing as "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" in _The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky’s Red River Gorge_, published 1971)


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