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verb- To give or leave by will.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Verb (used with object) : She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece
  • From these lower steps of the ladder the young man would certainly rise to the higher ranks of the administration, possessed of a fortune and a name bequeathed to him in
  • ‘You don’t want that horrible expression bequeathed to posterity.
  • I mean, the child ` s no longer living and she did, you know, kind of bequeathed that responsibility to the parents.
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