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# inherit

«inherit» in Mova's school dictionary: **to receive them from someone after they die** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (inherit, inherits, inherited, inheriting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To inherit money, a house or things is to receive them from someone after they die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#m1)

2) To inherit a feature is to get it from your parents through your genes: inherit blue eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#m2)

3) To inherit a problem or job is to take it over from someone before you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Science (inherited characteristics, genes), adult life and law (wills, inheritance), stories (the youngest son inherited a cat), Bible («the meek shall inherit the earth»).

### examples

- She inherited her grandmother's ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x1)
- I inherited my dad's curly hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x2)
- Children inherit genes from both parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x3)
- In the story, the miller's son inherited only a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x4)
- The new coach inherited a losing team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x5)
- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x6)
- My father is old, and if he dies I shall inherit his goods.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/#x7)

### note

Noun: inheritance; person: heir. In science: inherited features (eye colour) come from parents; learned skills (riding a bike) are not inherited.

### In the corpora

- [When close relatives have babies together, inherited illnesses become more common, so swapping animals keeps the family tree healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/7/)
- [Some dams have been repaired for hundreds of years by family after family of beavers, each one fixing the dam it inherited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/13/)
- [Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/8/)
- [Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/7/)
- [Colour blindness is usually inherited, is much more common in boys, and most often makes red and green hard to tell apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inherit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inherit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.