<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>To take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.</li><li>To receive as if by succession from predecessors: the problems the new government inherited from the previous administration.</li><li>To receive (a genetic character or trait) by the transmission of hereditary factors.</li><li>To succeed (a person) as heir.</li><li>To receive as one's portion; come into possession of: to inherit his brother's old clothes.</li></ul>