<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used with object) to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.</p></li><li><p>to receive as if by succession from predecessors: the problems the new government inherited from the previous administration.</p></li><li><p>to receive (a genetic character or trait) by the transmission of hereditary factors.</p></li><li><p>to succeed (a person) as heir.</p></li><li><p>to receive as one's portion; come into possession of: to inherit his brother's old clothes.</p></li><li><p>(used without object) to take or receive property or the like by virtue of being heir to it.</p></li><li><p>to receive qualities, powers, duties, etc., as by inheritance (followed by from).</p></li><li><p>to have succession as heir.</p></li></ul>