demise

Meaning

1. The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
2. 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.
3. Death.
4. The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.

death

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ring down the curtain

choke

passing

cash in one’s chips

join the choir invisible

give-up the ghost

cease to be

go to meet ones maker

fork up

yield

deed over

death of the Emperor

Reaper

the act of dying

the end of life

closing curtain

causa mortis

let on hire

causa donatio

abdication

become extinct

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈmaɪz/

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 senses "death, end" 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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