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INHERE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they inhere ... he / she / it inheres
Past simple: inhered
Past participle: inhered
-ing form: inhering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be inherent in something
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "inhere" is one way to...):
belong; belong to (be a part or adjunct)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
inherence (the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic)
inherent (in the nature of something though not readily apparent)
inherent (existing as an essential constituent or characteristic)
