inheriting
- 1Present participle of inherit.
Inheriting the family business meant taking on its debts as well.
He worried about inheriting his father's weak eyesight.
Note
One spelling, two jobs. As a participle it builds the progressive (she is inheriting the farm); as a gerund it works as a noun. Like inherit itself, it usually takes a direct object, such as a title, a trait or a debt. It can also stand alone when the meaning is simply coming into an inheritance. In programming, a class is described as inheriting functionality from its superclass.
inheriting is a form of inherit
inherit, verb: To receive property, a title, or other possessions through legal succession or a will after the previous owner dies. Full entry
- Spelling
- inherit → inheriting: add -ing
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