DEMISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demise mean? 

• DEMISE (noun)
  The noun DEMISE has 1 sense:

1. the time when something ends

  Familiarity information: DEMISE used as a noun is very rare.

• DEMISE (verb)
  The verb DEMISE has 1 sense:

1. transfer by a lease or by a will

  Familiarity information: DEMISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time when something ends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

death; demise; dying

Context example:

a dying of old hopes

Hypernyms ("demise" is a kind of...):

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demise"):

grave (death of a person)

Holonyms ("demise" is a part of...):

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))

• DEMISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they demise    ... he / she / it demises   
Past simple: demised   
Past participle: demised   
-ing form: demising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer by a lease or by a will

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "demise" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

An overreliance on walrus ivory was not the only factor in Norse Greenland’s demise.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

MESSENGER’s lonely demise on the small, scorched planet closest to the sun went unobserved because the probe hit the side of the planet facing away from Earth, so ground-based telescopes were not able to capture the moment of impact.

(NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface, NASA)

The severity of drought conditions during the demise of the Maya civilisation about one thousand years ago has been quantified, representing another piece of evidence that could be used to solve the longstanding mystery of what caused the downfall of one of the ancient world’s great civilisations.

(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)