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Answer for the clue "Obtain without effort ", 7 letters:
inherit
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take possession of as a right ''(especially in Biblical translations)''. 2 (context transitive English) To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a genetic/inherited defect (= one that is passed to you in your genes ) ▪ The condition is caused by a genetic defect. a hereditary/inherited disease (= that is passed from parent to child ) ▪ Parents are offered screening ...
Usage examples of inherit.
Q Factor Aberrants has not previously been observed to lead to aberrancy in the offspring of such alliances, since the aberrant factors do not appear to be inherited to any significant extent.
This would mean, according to our present understanding of heredity, an inherited abnormality in one or more enzyme systems and a metabolism that is therefore disordered in some specific manner.
Would you believe it, when we were children, my father had his own caique, and when his uncle died, we inherited land, the land up at the head of the plateau, where it is sheltered, the best in Agios Georgios!
These tidings were quite important to Mr Wharton as to Sir Alured,--more important to Everett Wharton than to either of them, as he would inherit all after the death of those two old men.
For the next five years you will receive a reasonable monthly allowance either from these same bank trustees or from one Miss Lillian Bede who, upon my death, has been offered the management of Mill House and who will, at the end of five years, inherit the estate should it demonstrably profit under her management.
Miss Bede from anywhere and while your concern for her is noble, remember, even if she does inherit, your mother and aunt would still leave.
What utter folly for any public man whose position is not inherited and cannot be bequeathed to his posterity, to support the edifice of his grandeur on any other basis than the noblest virtue practised for the general good, and to suppose that he can ensure the continuance of his own fortune otherwise than by taking all precautions against sudden whirlwinds which are want to arise in the midst of a calm, and to blow up the storm-clouds I mean the host of enemies.
They certainly knew how to take advantage of the common inherited, dinosaurian features, among which were light, hollow leg-bones, the erect posture of their limbs, bipedality, and the elongate neck vertebrae.
His taste for luxury extended to everything but ministers, for he inherited from his father and kept in office a shady group, neither capable nor honest, who were despised by the nobles because they were of common birth and hated by the bourgeois for their avarice and venality.
You said that Casta has promised the old man an heir, that he has made a prophecy that a boy will come to inherit Zir and lead it to new glory.
All the fierce and lurid passions which he inherited from his nation and his clime, at all times but ill concealed beneath the blandness of craft and the coldness of philosophy, were released in the breast of the Egyptian.
He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled, the earth that he inherits will be grey.
All that Miss Cotland had was the small amount of money she had inherited from her father who had been a doctor in this very part of London.
Now upon our own theory it can only be met by taking it to be due to inherited memory.
A unique gene, coding for a unique enzyme: Cyfer inherited as dogma what actually arose only through recent, bitter debate.