Demise vs. Death

Demisenoun

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

Demisenoun

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.

Demisenoun

Death.

Demisenoun

The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.

Demiseverb

To give.

Demiseverb

To convey, as by will or lease.

Demiseverb

To transmit by inheritance.

Demiseverb

To pass by inheritance.

Demiseverb

(intransitive) To die.

Demisenoun

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.

Demisenoun

The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.

Demisenoun

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

Demiseverb

To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.

Demiseverb

To convey; to give.

Demiseverb

To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.

Demisenoun

the time when something ends;

Demise

Demise is an Anglo-Norman legal term (from French démettre, from Latin dimittere, to send away) for the transfer of an estate, especially by lease. It has an operative effect in a lease, implying a covenant The phrase 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 At common law the death of the sovereign eo facto dissolved Parliament, but this was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1867.

Deathnoun

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

Deathnoun

The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

Deathnoun

(the death) The collapse or end of something.

Deathnoun

(figuratively, esp. followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

Deathnoun

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Deathnoun

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Deathnoun

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Deathnoun

Cause of loss of life.

Deathnoun

Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Deathnoun

Danger of death.

Deathnoun

Murder; murderous character.

Deathnoun

Loss of spiritual life.

Deathnoun

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathnoun

the event of dying or departure from life;

Deathnoun

the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism;

Deathnoun

the time at which life ends; continuing until dead;

Deathnoun

the personification of death;

Deathnoun

the absence of life or state of being dead;

Deathnoun

the time when something ends;

Deathnoun

the act of killing;

Deathnoun

a final state;

Death

Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death.