- DEMISE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DEMISE is death How to use demise in a sentence
- DEMISE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
DEMISE definition: 1 the death of a person: 2 the end of something that was previously considered to be powerful… Learn more
- DEMISE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Demise definition: death or decease See examples of DEMISE used in a sentence
- DEMISE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
the immediate transfer of sovereignty to a successor upon the death, abdication, etc, of a ruler (esp in the phrase demise of the crown) verb
- demise noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of demise noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- demise, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun demise, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- Demise - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
Resort to the noun demise when you describe the end, termination, or death of something or someone Demise is mostly used in medical or legal language, or when someone wants to sound either formal or euphemistic
- demise - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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
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