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BEQUEATH
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they bequeath ... he / she / it bequeaths
Past simple: bequeathed
Past participle: bequeathed
-ing form: bequeathing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave or give by will after one's death
Example:
My grandfather left me his entire estate
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "bequeath" is one way to...):
gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)
Verb group:
leave; leave behind (be survived by after one's death)
give; impart; leave; pass on (transmit (knowledge or skills))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bequeath"):
devise (give by will, especially real property)
pass on (give to or transfer possession of)
remember (show appreciation to)
entail; fee-tail (limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They bequeath the money to them
They bequeath them the money
Antonym:
disinherit (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)
Context examples:
Of this he bequeathed the interest of one thousand to Mr. Peggotty for his life; on his decease, the principal to be equally divided between Peggotty, little Emily, and me, or the survivor or survivors of us, share and share alike.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
