Anagram Solver

Definitions for Demise

[1] death or decease.
[2] termination of existence or operation: the demise of the empire.
[3] Law . a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate. a conveyance or transfer of an estate.
[4] Government . transfer of sovereignty, as by the death or deposition of the sovereign.
[5] Law . to transfer (an estate or the like) for a limited time; lease.
[6] Government . to transfer (sovereignty), as by the death or abdication of the sovereign.
[7] Law . to pass by bequest, inheritance, or succession.
[8] failure or termination the demise of one's hopes
[9] a euphemistic or formal word for death
[10] property law a transfer of an estate by lease the passing or transfer of an estate on the death of the owner
[11] the immediate transfer of sovereignty to a successor upon the death, abdication, etc, of a ruler (esp in the phrase demise of the crown )
[12] to transfer or be transferred by inheritance, will, or succession
[13] (tr) property law to transfer (an estate, etc) for a limited period; lease
[14] (tr) to transfer (sovereignty, a title, etc) by or as if by the death, deposition, etc, of a ruler

Words related to Demise

collapse, downfall, dissolution, departure, failure, termination, passing, extinction, curtains, end, dying, decease, ruin, ending, annihilation, quietus, sleep, expiration, fall, silence

Words nearby Demise

demipique, demiquaver, demirel, demirelief, demirep, demise, demisemiquaver, demission, demist, demister, demit

Origin of Demise

1400–50; late Middle English dimis(s)e, demise < Old French demis (past participle of desmetre ) < Latin dīmissum (past participle of dīmittere ); see demit1, dismiss

Other words from Demise

de·mis·a·bil·i·ty , noun
de·mis·a·ble , adjective
non·de·mise , noun
un·de·mised , adjective

Word origin for Demise

C16: from Old French, feminine of demis dismissed, from demettre to send away, from Latin dīmittere; see dismiss

Synonyms for Demise

collapse, departure, dissolution, downfall, extinction, failure, passing, termination, annihilation, curtains, decease, dying, end, ending, expiration, fall, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up