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inherited   (TTS Sound)

The verb inherit has 3 senses

• inherit -- (obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents")


• inherit -- (receive from a predecessor; "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair")


• inherit -- (receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother")

The adj inherited has 1 sense

• familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible -- (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features")