bequeathed

American  

[bih-kweetht, -kweethd] / bɪˈkwiθt, -kwiðd /

adjective

1. (of personal property or money) disposed of by a person’s final will.

   The college has received a bequeathed gift of $1 million from one of its alumni.

2. handed down or passed on.

   The more conservative council members see traditional values as the bequeathed virtues of a preferred past.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of bequeath.

Other Word Forms

• unbequeathed adjective

Etymology

Origin of bequeathed

First recorded in 1615–25; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Monkhouse bequeathed his joke book collection to his writing partner in his will.

From BBC

Gehry bequeathed blueprints and models, sketches and concepts, for his large and devoted team of younger architects and next-generation visionaries equipped to fabricate our way out of angst.

From Los Angeles Times

But many who served in the front lines maintained their revolutionary zeal, becoming more determined to sustain the regime Khomeini bequeathed to them.

From The Wall Street Journal

The world they bequeathed to us was immeasurably better than the world they'd inherited from their parents.

From BBC

He points out in a note that profit growth of 1% relative to the average of the prior two quarters was lower than the 1.7% benefit bequeathed by the period’s 1.5 extra days.

From The Wall Street Journal

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