demise: Meaning and Definition of

de•mise

1. death or decease.
2. termination of existence or operation: the demise of the empire.
1. a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.
2. a conveyance or transfer of an estate.
4. transfer of sovereignty, as by the death or deposition of the sovereign.

1. to transfer (an estate or the like) for a limited time; lease.
2. to transfer (sovereignty), as by the death or abdication of the sovereign.

1. to pass by bequest, inheritance, or succession.