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inherit
verb as in gain as possession from someone's death
Example Sentences
Dame Angela said Labour was making the asylum system "fit for purpose" after inheriting "an unholy mess" - where fewer than 1,000 cases a month were being processed.
Currently, pedigrees are how horse owners and breeders find out which stallions are in a horse's ancestry, which gives information on the traits a horse may have inherited.
She inherits a roster that was hit hard by injuries last season while pushing to rebuild around young talent.
His farming career began in the 1970s when he inherited a rubber plantation in the the southern Indian state of Kerala , which he managed alongside his career as a doctor.
The sequence of building blocks has evolved over a long period of time; we all inherit them from our parents.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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