Crossword-Solution: DISINHERIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disinherit | v. t. | To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. |
| Disinherit | v. t. | To deprive of heritage; to dispossess. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “DISINHERIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to deprive of an inheritance | 1 answer |
| Leave out, in a way | 1 answer |
| Deprive of will power? | 1 answer |
| Deprive of a right or privilege | 1 answer |
| Cut off from an estate | 1 answer |
| disentitle | 4 answers |
| bereave | 7 answers |
| foreclose | 8 answers |
| DEPRIVE of | 25 answers |
| Dispossess | 25 answers |
| Alienate | 32 answers |
| Impoverish | 33 answers |
| Depose | 40 answers |
| usurp | 45 answers |
| disclaim | 46 answers |
| Estrange | 47 answers |
| Disown | 50 answers |
| Divest | 54 answers |
| convey | 60 answers |
| Cut off | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISINHERIT (5)
Did your father disinherit you? Surely not?” “No, Villiers; I came into all the property at my poor father’s death; he died a year after I left Oxford.
Unmuffle, ye faint stars; and thou, fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benison, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades; Or, if your influence be quite dammed up With black usurping mists, some gentle taper, Though a rush-candle from the wicker hole Of some clay habitation, visit us With thy long levelled rule of streaming light, And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure.
But when all is said, Walt Whitman is neither a Milton nor a Shakespeare; to appreciate his works is not a condition necessary to salvation; and I would not disinherit a son upon the question, nor even think much the worse of a critic, for I should always have an idea what he meant.
Five days before his death Lacoste told him that, annoyed with his wife, he definitely intended to disinherit her.
She could manage to help her boy get what he wanted out of life without his having to pay such a terrible price as, the mine on one hand, and his father's displeasure on the other, might exact, for she knew that if he persisted too long, the break with Martin could never be bridged and that in the end his father would evoke the full powers of the law to disinherit him and tie her own hands as completely as possible in that direction.
Quotes with DISINHERIT (1)
The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1983–2009).