demise
Plural: demises
Noun
- the time when something ends
- The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
- Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
- Death.
- The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
- The atmospheric disintegration of a satellite or satellite component upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
Verb
Verb Forms: demised, demising, demises
- To transfer an estate by will; to convey property.
- transfer by a lease or by a will
- To give.
- To convey, as by will or lease.
- To transmit by inheritance.
- To pass by inheritance.
- To die.
Examples
- He chose to DEMISE his best scoring tiles to a later, more strategic play.
- Relocating components to places where they receive more heating effect earlier in the reentry and even triggering a partial break-up of the satellite structure during reentry to aid demise.
- The lack of funding ultimately led to the project's demise.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English demyse, dimise, dimisse, dymyse, from Middle French démise, the feminine singular past participle of démettre (“to put down, relinquish”); from Latin dēmissa, feminine singular of perfect passive participle of dēmittō. The "death" and "end" senses derive by way of euphemism from the legal sense, as a person's death was a common way that the legal demise could be accomplished.
The verb is from Middle English dimisen, from the noun.
Synonyms
death, dying, (the) bane, (the) end, celestial transfer, crash, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, demise, dirt nap, doom, downfall, exit, expiration, fall, fatality, liquidation, mortality, quietus, repose, sleep of the just, sunset, the big sleep
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
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