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What is the verb for heritage?

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inherit
  1. (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
  2. (transitive) To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
  3. (biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
  4. (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
  5. (intransitive) To come into an inheritance.
  6. (computing) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
  7. (computing) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “This allows you to decide exactly which people will inherit any money, property, or other assets when you die.”
      “The leader may inherit a situation for which moral authority cannot produce obedience or may be too far removed to exercise it.”
      “I am due to inherit some sizeable pieces of Georgian furniture and large paintings from a great-aunt.”
inherited
inherits
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inherit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For his second he inherits, from himself, a whacking budget deficit of his own making and a huge current account deficit.”
      “One fondly imagines that one reaches opinions by personal ratiocination, but of course many of them one inherits.”
      “She is a young flibbertigibbet who inherits her sister's three children after a car accident.”
inheriting
  1. present participle of inherit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Kiri is registered blind after inheriting an eye disease from partially sighted Daphne.”
      “It would operate like inbreeding, which increases the odds of offspring inheriting the same deleterious recessive allele from both parents.”
      “If he does, the umpire will merely direct the proper batter to take his place in the batter's box while inheriting the count.”
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