Demise

Quick meaning: Demise is a noun meaning (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.

Meaning

(law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Death; decease.
2. (countable) The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
3. (technology) The atmospheric disintegration of a satellite or satellite component upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
4. (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
5. (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
6. (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

The lack of funding ultimately led to the project's demise.

Relocating components to places where they receive more heating effect earlier in the reentry and even triggering a partial break-up of the satellite structure during reentry to aid demise.

Earth looked her loveliest to receive my sweet sister's gentle dust; but all was harsh and sullen as her own nature when Lady Avonleigh's haughty ashes returned to their original element. Immediately after her demise, her son went abroad, and I accompanied him.

More than a quarter of a century after the fraught events that followed the privatisation of the railway, Corbett has provided a warts and all analysis of what led to the spate of rail disasters in the aftermath of the break-up of British Rail, and (ultimately) to the demise of the company.

Word Forms

• demises
• demising
• demised

Synonyms for demise

Depending on context, synonyms include fatality, quietus, death, tomb, decease, decomposition.

Antonyms for demise

Common opposites include birth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include death, dying, rent, bankruptcy, assignment, order.

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