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Definition

give or pass down — often upon death in a will

bequeathed = passed down to

bequeath = pass down

The Getty Museum became the most richly endowed museum in the world when J. Paul Getty bequeathed $1.2 billion in his will.

bequeathed = left upon his death

The Latin dictionary was the first of thirteen thousand volumes which he would eventually buy and, at his death, bequeath to the Boston Public Library.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman

bequeath = leave (upon death)

He had a broad brown face with a broken nose and a head of nappy grey hair, and his Dothraki mother had bequeathed him large, dark, almond-shaped eyes.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

bequeathed = passed down to

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant

bequeathed = passed down

Before he died he handed over his pocket-book to me, and bequeathed me his boots—the same that he once inherited from Kemmerich.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

bequeathed = gave upon death

How was I to imagine the Grand Master would go to such ends to deceive me and bequeath the keystone to an estranged granddaughter?
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

bequeath = leave upon death

For a while, I toyed with the idea of bequeathing the entire collection to Andrea Lockerby, if only because she, too, had loved Daniel.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

bequeathing = leaving upon death

They reach out to people, hosting dinner parties, bequeathing little bits of themselves to their friends.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

bequeathing = giving or passing down

We bequeath our racquets to an eager, pink-cheeked foursome.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty

bequeath = give or pass down

I, Samuel W. Westing, otherwise known as Sandy McSouthers and others, do hereby give and bequeath all the property and possessions in my name as follows:
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

bequeath = leave upon death

She had seen the paintings of European ports that the Belgian lady had bequeathed me with the white studio–sitting room.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River

bequeathed = left upon death

He decided to bequeath Henry his video games.
Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds

bequeath = give or pass down

She bequeaths her stuffed toys to Gloria's fourteen-year-old daughter.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

bequeaths = passes down

The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me.
Frederick Douglass -- The Hypocrisy of American Slavery

bequeathed = passed down

Myself, I was just born lucky, somehow fluked my way in with a work ethic bequeathed to me by my dad.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

bequeathed = passed down

Hastings passed both speed and malevolence down to his son Fair Play, who in turn bequeathed it to his incomparable son, Man o' War.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

bequeathed = passed down

I, Theodore Finch, being of unsound mind, do hereby bequeath all my earthly possessions to Charlie Donahue, Brenda Shank-Kravitz, and my sisters.
Jennifer Niven -- All the Right Places

bequeath = leave upon death

So, with this legacy, we leave this Englishman and are concerned hereafter with the heir to whom he bequeathed it, his second son, a boy named Oliver.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

bequeathed = left upon death

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