0 past simple and past participle of disinherit
1 to prevent someone, especially a son or daughter who has made you angry, from receiving any of your property after your death:
As one disinherited, he claims that legitimacy is his.
The memorialist is one who has been disinherited or disenfranchised.
No wonder she felt her father had disinherited her at his death in 1857.
However, for several reasons outlined below, a strengthening of women's rights only as widows is inadequate for their economic security if they continue to be disinherited as daughters.
Many children are disinherited by a parent entering a care home.
These disinherited people have formed their own political parties to demand that they should be allowed to go back.
For the most part they are absolutely landless, absolutely disinherited of their share in the common gift of nature to the community.
The real problem with social security is not lone parents: it is disinherited young men.
