Usually means: Receiving traits or assets legally.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. inheriting: Merriam-Webster
  2. inheriting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inheriting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inheriting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inheriting, inheriting: Wordnik
  6. inheriting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inheriting: Wiktionary
  8. Inheriting, inheriting: Dictionary.com
  9. inheriting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Inheriting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Inheriting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. inheriting: Rhymezone
  13. Inheriting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. inheriting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. inheriting: FreeDictionary.org
  16. inheriting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. inheriting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inheriting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inheriting: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inheriting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. inheriting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See inherit as well.)

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adjective:  having the legal right to inherit


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