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DEMISE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time when something ends

Example:

a dying of old hopes

Synonyms:

death; demise; dying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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))

 II. (verb) 

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

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