DISINHERIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinherit mean? 

• DISINHERIT (verb)
  The verb DISINHERIT has 1 sense:

1. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

  Familiarity information: DISINHERIT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINHERIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disinherit    ... he / she / it disinherits   
Past simple: disinherited   
Past participle: disinherited   
-ing form: disinheriting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

disinherit; disown

Hypernyms (to "disinherit" is one way to...):

deprive (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

bequeath (leave or give by will after one's death)

Derivation:

disinheritance (the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit)

 Context examples 

The independence she settled on Robert, through resentment against you, has put it in his power to make his own choice; and she has actually been bribing one son with a thousand a-year, to do the very deed which she disinherited the other for intending to do.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)