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passed down

adjective as in hand-me-down

adjective as in inherited

adjective as in used

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Ms Burrough's condition had a 50% risk of being passed down to any children, and some babies are so profoundly affected that they do not survive.

From BBC

“My grandmother was passionate about history and museums, so my family passed down a few things of hers that were in storage,” she says.

In my last few days at the NIH, I was also told, in a directive passed down from a superior, that we were no longer allowed to use terms like health equity.

From Slate

Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, who, with two brothers and a half brother, is part owner of the franchise, passed down from their late father, a “creep” under whose stewardship the team nevertheless won a lot of trophies.

It had been passed down to musicians over two centuries before it was purchased by a businessman in Germany.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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