inherit

IPA: ɪnhˈɛrʌt

(transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
(transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
(transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
(transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
(intransitive) To come into an inheritance.
(computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
(computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
(transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.

Examples of "inherit" in Sentences

What can we do to ensure that the America our children inherit is better in the future?
For many want-to-be retirees, whether to set aside money for the children to inherit is a tough question.
Over time they may be able to change the facts as they are ... but what they will inherit is the real world of the right now.
Excepting the wrong use of the term inherit, we were not prepared to dispute the old gentleman's ideas respecting the origin of his disease.
In the context of what it means to be an American today, we must examine the values that we inherit from the pioneers and frontiersmen, and how they relate to the future of our nation in the world.
The Constitution we are likely to inherit from a second Bush Administration will be a bit like the famous New Yorker cartoon of the New Yorker's vision of the World, with the Commander-in-Chief Clause dominating the page in powerful, large letters, and the rest of the Constitutional text shrinking away into tiny, barely readable prose.