bequeath

as in to leave
to give by means of a will having no heir, he bequeathed his house to his local church

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Recent Examples of bequeath Oscar’s own Altadena home, on Grandeur Avenue, which was bequeathed to him and his wife, Laurie, by a great-aunt who bought it in the fifties, was just a five-minute drive away. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025 After years on the periphery of French politics, his fortunes changed in 1977 when he was bequeathed a mansion outside Paris by a millionaire backer, along with 30 million francs, around $5.2 million in today's money. Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025 Still, with the Conservatives leading the Liberals by 25 percentage points in recent surveys, the path that Mr. Trudeau bequeaths his successor is likely to be treacherous. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 But it was discovered this year after an Austrian citizen was bequeathed it by a relative who had bought it in 1960. The Week Uk, theweek, 29 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bequeath

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“Bequeath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bequeath. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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