Uninherited
verb (used with object)
1.
to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir:
to inherit the family business.
2.
to receive as if by succession from predecessors:
the problems the new government inherited from its predecessors.
3.
to receive (a genetic character) by the transmission of hereditary factors.
4.
to succeed (a person) as heir.
5.
to receive as one’s portion; come into possession of:
to inherit his brother’s old clothes.
verb (used without object)
6.
to take or receive property or the like by virtue of being heir to it.
7.
to receive qualities, powers, duties, etc., as by inheritance (followed by from).
8.
to have succession as heir.
verb -its, -iting, -ited
1.
to receive (property, a right, title, etc) by succession or under a will
2.
(intransitive) to succeed as heir
3.
(transitive) to possess (a characteristic) through genetic transmission
4.
(transitive) to receive (a position, attitude, property, etc) from a predecessor
inherit in·her·it (ĭn-hěr’ĭt)
v. in·her·it·ed, in·her·it·ing, in·her·its
To receive a trait from one’s parents by genetic transmission.
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