Usually means: End or termination of existence.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. demise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. demise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demise, demise: Wordnik
  7. demise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demise: Wiktionary
  9. demise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. demise: Dictionary.com
  13. demise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. demise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Demise (Missing Foundation album), Demise (Nachtmystium album), Demise (Wild Cards), Demise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Demise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. demise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. demise: Rhymezone
  19. demise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. demise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. demise: Free Dictionary
  22. demise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. demise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. demise: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. demise: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. demise: Legal dictionary
  9. demise: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demise: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Demise: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
noun:  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.
noun:  (countable) Death.
noun:  (countable) The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
verb:  (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
verb:  (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To pass by inheritance.
verb:  (intransitive) To die.

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