This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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n. Death.

n. The end of existence or activity; termination: the demise of the streetcar.

n. Law Transfer of an estate by lease or will.

n. The transfer of a ruler's authority by death or abdication.

v. Law To transfer (an estate) by will or lease.

v. To transfer (sovereignty) by abdication or will.

verb-intransitive. Law To be transferred by will or descent: The land demised to a charitable institution.

verb-intransitive. To die.

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

n. 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.

n. Death.

n. end (less common, usually in a negative manner)

v. To give.

v. To convey, as by will or lease.

v. To transmit by inheritance.

v. To pass by inheritance.

v. To die.

n. 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.

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

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

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

v. To convey; to give.

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

n. Transfer; transmission; devolution, as of a right or an estate in consequence of death, forfeiture of title, etc.

n. In law, a conveyance or transfer of an estate by will or lease in fee, for life or for a term of years; in modern use, a lease for years.

n. Hence Death, especially of a sovereign or other person transmitting important possessions or great fame: often used as a mere euphemism for death, without other implication.

To bequeath; grant by will.

In law, to transfer or convey, as an estate, for life or for years; lease.

To pass by bequest or inheritance; descend, as property.

n. the time when something ends

v. transfer by a lease or by a will

"I've read it again somewhere recently, books of letters are nearing their end, the demise is almost upon us and e mails with their clipped language will surely be a poor substitute."

demised    demises    demising   

transfer   

demise and redemise   

demission    demit   

death    departure    decease    transference    convey    give    lease    transfer    die   

Ais    Allies    Guise    Guys    Lise    Marseilles    Thais    Wise    advise    ais   

downfall    dissolution    extinction    decease    overthrow    confrontation    disappearance    annihilation    breakdown    doom