bequeath

Related to bequeath: bequest

bequeath (something) to (someone)

To posthumously leave something to someone, as in a will. Did Aunt Millie bequeath anything to us in her will? When my grandmother died, she bequeathed this vintage coffee table to me.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bequeath something to someone

to will something to someone; to leave something to someone. My uncle bequeathed some furniture to me. I will bequeath this watch to my grandson.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bequeath (something) to (someone)
  • bequeath to
  • remember (someone) in (one's) will
  • remember in will
  • change (something) with (someone)
  • change with
  • edge by
  • edge by (someone or something)
  • climax
  • bring (something) to a climax
References in periodicals archive
Quite like you take pride in moving your fingers over the frayed embroidery of your grandmother's moth-eaten quilts that you have inherited or admire the filigree on the wooden chest that your grandaunt had bequeathed upon you.
"This means that most wealth held by retired people is likely to be bequeathed to future generations, rather than spent.
Second, breeding dispersal could be a form of parental inv estment whereby parents would bequeath some resources (territory, food hoard, nest site) to juveniles, thus increasing offspring fitness (Myllymaki 1977, Jones 1986, Cockburn 1988, Lambin 1997, Price and Boutin 1993, Price et al.
A faithful people is not marked by its jealous preservation of relics, but by its oneness with the faith in the future that its own dead bequeathed to it.
It is understood Mr Fox had no close family members, and therefore chose to bequeath the bulk of his estate to the RNLI.
Under the new system, individuals would get to create savings accounts that could be invested in the stock market, and all people, gay or otherwise, would be allowed to bequeath their accounts to anyone.
By issuing a check to a noncharitable donee with the understanding that it will not be cashed until after the donor's death, a decedent could effectively bequeath up to $10,000 per donee, avoiding the estate tax consequences normally attending such transactions.
The Reformation and its "discipline ordinances," however, did bequeath the basic laws of sexual regulation to the absolutist state.
BATTERSEA Dogs' Home turned down Lord Avebury's 1987 offer to bequeath them money on condition they fed his body to the dogs.
Is this what we want to bequeath to our children, a nation caught in the grips of fantasy.
The environmental idea is to bequeath large, functioning ecosystem to future generations.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is likely to step down soon and bequeath power to his son Gamal, an Israeli daily said Wednesday, as carried in the Beirut leftist daily AS SAFIR Thursday.
Women appear in this analysis as having wider non-family and non-kin social networks than men, as constituting more than 40 percent of executors, as more inclined than men to bequeath equally to sons and daughters and to nurture ties to natal kin as a counterweight to their husbands.
501(c)(3) as the designated beneficiaries of deferred compensation items and planned to bequeath the stock options to the same charities.
Our mutual hope is to bequeath a phrase or an image to the dreamers so that we may live on in their reverie.