Meaning & use
bequeathed
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Left property, money, or possessions to someone through a will after death.
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Her grandmother bequeathed the family farm to her youngest son.
The author bequeathed all future royalties from the book to a literacy charity.
A note on using this word
Often used more broadly in figurative speech to mean passing something down, as in "bequeathed a legacy," beyond its strict legal sense of leaving personal property in a will.
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