Demise

Definition: Demise

Demise

Noun

1. The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "demise" was first used: 1442. (references)

Economics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Demise

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Death

Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.

Lending

Let, demise, lease, sett, underlet.

Transfer

Noun: transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation; demise, limitation; conveyancing; transmission; (transference); enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange; (interchange); barter; substitution.

Crosswords: Demise

Czech (demission).

Your arrogance will spell your demise, Raziel. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

These disks I hold are they a record of what will be, or only of what may? For if the future is indeed immutably foretold, then my demise is but moments away from that confirmation -- for I could not live if not the master of my fate! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

I want him to know that I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen am the instrument of his family's demise. (Dune; writing credit: John Harrison)

So what do people do up here, besides wait for an early demise and ask really dumb questions (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun)

Love without without demise ("Sent From up Above"; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Manic demise, absolution mine ("Manic Demise"; performing artist: The Creation)

Poor Jake's Demise (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and its Lessons for Global Power (reference)

• Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (reference)

• Gaia's Demise (Deathlands, 47) (reference)

• Lord Diablo's Demise (Zebra Regency Romance) (reference)

• Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Demise of Hook (reference)

• The Triumph of Design & the Demise of Darwin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (reference)

• Violent Demise the Last Days [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• World Demise [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

In all cases, however, the cells actively participate in the process that leads to their demise. (references)

Business

The two British based groups, ICO and Inmarsat, initially suffered as a result of bad publicity associated with the high-profile demise of the Motorola backed Iridium project. (references)

After the demise of the Soviet Union, many local raw material manufacturers were closed and the country had to switch to buying raw materials abroad, which led to a significant rise in prices. (references)

After a 2 % decrease in the UK retail book market between 1995 and '96, the year after the demise of the Net Book Agreement (which maintained the price at which books were sold), figures from the Publishers Association show a strong recovery. (references)

Economic History

Czech Republic

The demise of Civic Forum was viewed by most as necessary and inevitable. (references)

Somalia

The Somali Government's demise led to the de facto dissolution of the national armed forces. (references)

Korea

With around $80 billion in debt, Daewoo's demise was by far the largest corporate bankruptcy in modern history. (references)

Trade

Korea

Daewoo's demise, which involved around $80 billion of unpaid debt, was easily the world's biggest corporate bankruptcy. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

The size and frequency of strikes increased over those held in 2000. The most prominent strikes during the year concerned collective bargaining for postal workers and education workers and the demise of the national airline, Sabena. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "demise": charterparty by demise ♦ Demise and redemise ♦ demise charter. Additional references.

Albanian

dorëzim i trashëgimit, qiradhënie e pronës, lë trashëgim (bequeath, leave, legate, legator, remember), lë fronin, jap me qira (hire, lease, let, let out, Lodge, rent, underlet), abdikoj (abdicate, deny, disavow, disclaim, resign), abdikim (abdication, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منون, ‏موت (bane, death, decease, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, passing, quietus), ‏مصرع (death), ‏نهاية (close, end, ending, fate, fine, fining, finish, limit, stop, tag, tail end, termination, terminus), ‏وفاة (death, dying, expiration), ‏ورث (bequeath, confer, devise, entail, inheritance, will), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏زوال (disappearance, evanescence, vanishing), ‏إنتقل بوصية, ‏إنتقال (commute, move, removal, signing up, switch, transference, transition, transmission). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смърт (curtains, death, decease, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), отказване от престола, завещаване, завещавам (bequeath, devise, give, leave, legate, will), прехвърляне (alienation, assignation, assignment, tradition, transfer, transference), предавам по наследство, даване под аренда, давам имот под аренда. (various references)

Chinese 

困境 (Dilemma, Jackpot, Predicament). (various references)

Czech

úmrtí (bereavement, fatality). (various references)

Danish

leje af skib uden besætning (bareboat charter, demise charter), bareboat-charter (bareboat charter, demise charter), B/B-charter (bareboat charter, demise charter). (various references)

Dutch

demise charter (bareboat charter, demise charter), rompbevrachting (bareboat charter, demise charter), gebruiksovereenkomst (bareboat charter, demise charter). (various references)

Farsi 

مردن (Decease, Dying, Expire, Passaway, Perish, Quail), وفات یافتن , انتقال دادن (Alienate, Remise, Shift, Transmit). (various references)

French

disparition (departure), décès (death, decease), transfert par testament, transfert par legs, transfert (deed of transfer), mort (dead, death), fin (death), cessation. (various references)

German

Besitzübertragung. (various references)

Greek 

κληροδοτώ (bequeath, hand down), θάνατοσ (casualty, death). (various references)

Hebrew 

מית�" (death, decease, dying, killing), מות (death, decease, fate, latter end, mortality, quietus), פטיר�" (death, departure, passing away). (various references)

Hungarian

haszonbérlet átruházása, haszonbérbe adás (lease), haszonbérbe ad (to lease out, to let by lease), hagyományoz (to bequeath, to demise). (various references)

Indonesian

kematian (bereavement, death, decease, dying). (various references)

Italian

decesso (death, decease, exitus), trasferimento (crossover, dispersion, handoff, hand-off, inter-bin transfer, movement, overpass, removal, shifting, submission, transfer, turning), morte (death, dying, end, exit, exitus, fatality, passing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

崩御 (death of the Emperor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうえ�" (end of a performance, fringe, rim), ほうぎょ (death of the Emperor), いて�" (moving, transfer), �"うきょ (canal, death, ditch, elevation, Imperial Palace, official government permission, opposition, resistance, sewer). (various references)

Korean 

서거. (various references)

Manx

livrey harrish (transference). (various references)

Pig Latin

emiseday

Portuguese

transferir (communicate, convey, devolve, grant, move, postponement, put off, shift, to move, to transfer, transfer, translate, turn over), morte (death, decease, doom, dying, exit, passing, quietus, quittance), legar (bequeath, devise, forsooth, leave, legatee, transmit, will), legado (bequest, devise, endowment, legacy, legate), falecimento (decease, pass, passing), ceder (abandon, assign, break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, desist, dispose of, folder, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knucklebone, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield), arrendar (attorn, farm, farm owner, hire, lease, leasehold, let, rent, take, to lease, to rent). (various references)

Romanian

deces (death, decease), transmitere (conduction, conveyance, devolution, rendering, transmission), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), cesiune (assignation, assignment, cession, disposal, grant, release, transfer), ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield). (various references)

Russian 

сдавать в аренду (farm out), кончина (departure, end), отречение от престола, передача недвижимости, передавать по наследству (propagate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaveštati (bequeath, devise, hand down, leave, will), smrt (death), prenos imanja. (various references)

Spanish

fallecimiento (death, decease, departure). (various references)

Swedish

frånfälle (death, decease), död (below ground, clinical death, dead, death, decease, decedent, defunct, departure, doom, dying, exit, expiry, fate, insensate, late, passing, quietus). (various references)

Turkish

devretme (alienation, assignment, cession, circulation, delivery, devolution, revolve, transfer), vefat (deaths, decease), vasiyetle devretmek, feragat etmek (abdicate, disclaim, release, relinquish, renounce, sink, stand aside, stand down, surrender, waive), feragat (abnegation, disclaimer, release, relinquishment, remise, remission, renunciation, resignation, self denial, surrender, waiver), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references)

Ukranian 

заповідати майно, здавання нерухомої власності в оренду, передача нерухомої власності в оренду, передавати владу, передавати майно у спадщину. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự qua đời (decease), sự nhượng lại (cession). (various references)

mittere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "demise": demised, demisemiquaver, demisemiquavers, demises. (additional references)

Words containing "demise": hemidemisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquavers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Demise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daimes, Dameshek, damishel, damozel, danise, decisi, Delisle, Delissa, Demdike, demeis, demersum, demic, demice, demile, demine, demire, demis, demi-sel, demiser, demisne, demite, demize, Demoze, demuse, denase, denise, Denyse, depise, Dermitze, desize, desmise, Dexies, dexis, dimease, dimise, Domasi, domise, Dumeisen, Dumiso, dumosa, Dumuzi, emise, Wemicke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: demies.

-1 letter: deems, deism, demes, dimes, disme, meeds.

-2 letters: deem, dees, deme, dies, dime, dims, eide, emes, idem, ides, meed, mids, mise, seed, seem, seme, semi, side.

-3 letters: dee, die, dim, dis, eds, eme, ems, ids, ism, med, mid, mis, see, sei, sim.

-4 letters: de, ed, em, es, id, is, me, mi, si.

+1 letter: delimes, demised, demises, impedes, misdeed, misdeem, remised, sidemen.

+2 letters: bedtimes, bemisted, beslimed, besmiled, comedies, demerits, demireps, demonise, dermises, dimeters, embodies, emeroids, endemics, endemism, epiderms, immersed, immeshed, impeders, inmeshed, itemised, limeades, medflies, mediates, melodies, melodise, midweeks, misdeeds, misdeems, premised, remedies, sediment, seedtime, semideaf, semidome, seminude, simmered, simpered.

+3 letters: academies, amnestied, bedimples, blemished, deaminase, decemvirs, decimates, defeatism, dementias, demilunes, demitasse, demiurges, demonised, demonises, demonizes, dermestid, diameters, diemakers, dimerizes, dimnesses, disesteem, dishelmed, dismember, dissemble, distemper, domineers, dosimeter, dramedies, dreamiest, embodiers, endemisms, epidemics, epidermis, estimated, exodermis, feminised, flemished, impledges, impressed, jeremiads, mediacies, medicares, medicates, medicines, medievals, meditates, melodised, melodises, melodizes, memorised, metalised, methodise, milkweeds, millepeds, misdeemed, misdefine, misedited, misleader, misleared, mispenned, misrelied, misrender, misseated, mistended, mistermed, modernise, modesties, moistened, monetised, pediments, periderms, premedics, reimposed, reminders, rereminds, sediments, seedtimes, semideify, semidomed, semidomes, shimmered.

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