EGAVE

entail

About 3.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To imply, require, or invoke.
    This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  2. verb To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  3. verb To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. noun That which is entailed. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  5. noun An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
  6. noun The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  7. noun Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Similar words

imply mean implicate cause result presuppose implied understand suppose assume

Often followed by

a the that an any some upon and of

Word family

entailed entailer entailers entailing entails

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