disinherit
verb (used with object)
to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
disinherits
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present tense formof disinherit (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Nearly every state in the U.S. has a version of California’s slayer statute, which effectively disinherits beneficiaries who’ve “feloniously and intentionally” killed their benefactors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
When Morosus’s nephew Henry shows up with his theater troupe, Morosus, appalled at Henry’s chosen career, disinherits him and insults his wife, Aminta.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
If she disinherits me, her only child, I can’t make it up to my half-siblings.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2021
Sebald’s melancholy flâneur, then, already disinherits Baudelaire’s 19th-century optimism.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
We sometimes hear of a father who disinherits a child in consequence of some act of disobedience.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
