Meaning of "demise" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEMISE

From Old French, feminine of demis dismissed, from demettre to send away, from Latin dīmittere.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DEMISE

demise  [dɪˈmaɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMISE

Demise is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb demise in English.

WHAT DOES DEMISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Demise

Demise, in its original meaning, is an Anglo-Norman legal term for a transfer of an estate, especially by lease. The word has an operative effect in a lease implying a covenant "for quiet enjoyment". The phrase "demise of the Crown" is used in English law to signify the immediate transfer of the sovereignty, with all its attributes and prerogatives, to the successor without any interregnum in accordance with the maxim "the Crown never dies". At common law the death of the sovereign eo facto dissolved Parliament, but this was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1867. Similarly the common law doctrine that all offices held under the Crown determined at its demise has been reversed by the Demise of the Crown Act 1901.

Definition of demise in the English dictionary

The first definition of demise in the dictionary is failure or termination. Other definition of demise is a transfer of an estate by lease. Demise is also the passing or transfer of an estate on the death of the owner.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEMISE

PRESENT

Present

I demise

you demise

he/she/it demises

we demise

you demise

they demise

Present continuous

I am demising

you are demising

he/she/it is demising

we are demising

you are demising

they are demising

Present perfect

I have demised

you have demised

he/she/it has demised

we have demised

you have demised

they have demised

Present perfect continuous

I have been demising

you have been demising

he/she/it has been demising

we have been demising

you have been demising

they have been demising

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I demised

you demised

he/she/it demised

we demised

you demised

they demised

Past continuous

I was demising

you were demising

he/she/it was demising

we were demising

you were demising

they were demising

Past perfect

I had demised

you had demised

he/she/it had demised

we had demised

you had demised

they had demised

Past perfect continuous

I had been demising

you had been demising

he/she/it had been demising

we had been demising

you had been demising

they had been demising

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will demise

you will demise

he/she/it will demise

we will demise

you will demise

they will demise

Future continuous

I will be demising

you will be demising

he/she/it will be demising

we will be demising

you will be demising

they will be demising

Future perfect

I will have demised

you will have demised

he/she/it will have demised

we will have demised

you will have demised

they will have demised

Future perfect continuous

I will have been demising

you will have been demising

he/she/it will have been demising

we will have been demising

you will have been demising

they will have been demising

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would demise

you would demise

he/she/it would demise

we would demise

you would demise

they would demise

Conditional continuous

I would be demising

you would be demising

he/she/it would be demising

we would be demising

you would be demising

they would be demising

Conditional perfect

I would have demise

you would have demise

he/she/it would have demise

we would have demise

you would have demise

they would have demise

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been demising

you would have been demising

he/she/it would have been demising

we would have been demising

you would have been demising

they would have been demising

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you demise
we let´s demise
you demise

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to demise

Past participle

demised

Present Participle

demising

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DEMISE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «demise» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of demise

alienation · bequeath · breakdown · collapse · convey · conveyance · death · decease · defeat · departure · disintegration · dissolution · downfall · dying · end · expiration · failure · fall · grant · leave · overthrow · passing · ruin · termination · transfer · transmission · will

TRANSLATION OF DEMISE

Find out the translation of demise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of demise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demise» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 终止
• Translator English - Spanish: fallecimiento
• English: demise
• Translator English - Hindi: निधन
• Translator English - Arabic: زوال
• Translator English - Russian: кончина
• Translator English - Portuguese: falecimento
• Translator English - Bengali: মরণ
• Translator English - French: fin
• Translator English - Malay: Mati
• Translator English - German: Ende
• Translator English - Japanese: 終焉
• Translator English - Korean: 종말
• Translator English - Javanese: Demise
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cho thuê
• Translator English - Tamil: மறைவுக்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: मृत्यू
• Translator English - Turkish: ölüm
• Translator English - Italian: fine
• Translator English - Polish: upadek
• Translator English - Ukrainian: кончина
• Translator English - Romanian: deces
• Translator English - Greek: διάλυση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ondergang
• Translator English - Swedish: frånfälle
• Translator English - Norwegian: bortgang

10 QUOTES WITH «DEMISE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word demise.

1

Dianna Agron

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

2

Henry Bonilla

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.

3

Howard Coble

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

4

James Fallows

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

5

Kenneth Fisher

Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.

6

Stanislav Grof

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

7

Skitch Henderson

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

8

Casey Kasem

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

9

Allen Klein

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

10

Jim Knight

I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMISE»

Discover the use of demise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial ...

Sacred Demise is about the transformation of human consciousness and the emergence of a new paradigm as a result discovering our purpose in the collapse process, thereby coming home to our ultimate place in the universe.

Carolyn Baker, 2009

A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the ...

Scholars and students of Asian history will find this work an invaluable resource and interested readers will appreciate the clear explanation of highly polemicized, and often confusing, historical events.

Melvyn C. Goldstein, 1991

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and ...

A narrative history profiles the British Empire as a "cradle of modernity," tracing the expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture during the last four centuries and continuing with discussions of such topics as economic ...

Niall Ferguson, 2004

Darwin's Demise: Why Evolution Can't Take the Heat

Authors Joe White and Nicholas Comninellis have a passion for truth, and for sharing it with students and their parents. In Darwin's Demise,they succeed in showing why real science is burning down the House of Darwin.

Nicholas Comninellis, Joe White, 2001

The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson

The essays in The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson consummately demonstrate that writing on popular culture can be both thoughtful and heartfelt.

Mark Fisher, 2009

Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of ...

Drawing on interviews with British rock stars, celebrities, and political experts, a music journalist describes the rise and fall of the 1990s cultural movement called Britpop. Original. 25,000 first printing.

John Harris, 2004

The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on ...

The book is a series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and ...

Richard J. Cox, 2010

And there was pain in the event of our demise...

Except this book is more personal.Through a series of un-edited letters to my ex-lover, I reveal my struggle to find my way out of her bed and back into God's arms.

Najma London, 2010

Rise and Demise of Commodity Agreements: An Investigation ...

A detailed examination is provided of the circumstances which led to the negotiation of each of the international commodity agreements with economic provision included since the end of World War II. How such agreements operated and the ...

Marcelo Raffaelli, 1995

Belen Demise

The Sage crew returns to Panama to retrieve the Spanish treasure from their ship which sank in Gatun Lake following a collision with a tanker.

Robert Apold, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demise is used in the context of the following news items.

Curtain falls on Nokia's Finnish home in boom-to-bust demise

MICROSOFT Corp.'s move to close the site where Nokia assembled its last mobile phone in Finland leaves it with a skeletal crew in the country ... «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Jul 15»

Duggar Demise! FCC Complaint Could End 19 Kids And Counting …

Ever since the Josh Duggar molestation scandal came to light, as well as the fact that Jim Bob and Michelle hid it from police for far too long, ... «SheKnows.com, Jul 15»

No foreign experts for demise of Cyprus Airways investigation

An ad hoc parliamentary committee probing the demise of national carried Cyprus Airways will have to manage without expert assistance due ... «Cyprus Mail, Jul 15»

Vyapam: Autopsy terms Namrata's demise homicidal

MBBS student Namrata Damor, whose body was found near rail tracks in Ujjain district in 2012 after her name figured in the Vyapam scam, had ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»

The Demise Of Apple Watch May Be Greatly Exaggerated

Apple Watch sales have plunged 90 percent since a strong opening week, according to research published this week. On certain days, Apple is ... «RTT News, Jul 15»

Governor, CM condole demise of Swadesh Chopra

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Governor, N.N. Vohra and Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed have expressed grief over the sad ... «Kashmir Images, Jul 15»

Industry mourns the demise of Nataraj Prabhu

Natraj Prabhu, past president, All India Federation of the Master Printers (AIFMP) is no more. The 59-year old passed away on 6 July 2015 in ... «PrintWeek India, Jul 15»

Abiola Sacrificed All At The Expense Of His Family's Suffering …

The daughter of the late business mogul, who said this at an event organised to mark the 17th anniversary of his demise, added that the family ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»

CM condoles demise of Kargil CEC'S mother

Srinagar,July 07 (Scoop News)- Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, today expressed grief over the sad demise of the mother of Chief Executive Councillor ... «Scoop News, Jul 15»

watch Elephant Micah's video for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy collab …

... Woods earlier this year on Western Vinyl, and today we're premiering the video for an alternate version of its song "Demise of the Bible Birds. «Brooklyn Vegan, Jul 15»