bequeath

Verb

Meaning

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

will leave devise award present provide give allow legate supply pass transfer contribute yield grant
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Antonyms

disinherit rob subject keep annex accept
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Hypernyms

present give gift

Hyponyms

remember devise entail pass on fee-tail

Phrases with the word

to bequeath bequeath to someone

Derivatives

bequeathed bequeathing

Examples

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. Heinrich Heine

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. Ursula K. Le Guin

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. Walt Whitman

I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age. Francis Bacon

The bodies breathe, feed, store up strength, and then in an erotic moment are shattered, are spent and drained utterly, that they may bequeath their spirit to their sons. What spirit? The drive upward! Nikos Kazantzakis

I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class. Benito Mussolini

Close letter words and terms

bepurple bepuzzle bepuzzlement bequeath to someone bequeathable bequeathal