verb
- Obtain from someone after their death.
- usage: "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"
- synonyms: inherit
- Receive from a predecessor.
- usage: "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
- synonyms: inherit
- Receive by genetic transmission.
- usage: "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
- synonyms: inherit
adjective
- Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.
- usage: "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted, transmissible
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