demise
noun
death or decease.
Example Sentences
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Their fanbase will often identify with them until such time as these outlaws finally meet their ultimate legal demises.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024
If anything, the sentimentality of such demises lie not in the character’s fate but in an actor’s departure.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
Outside the nine-episode series, the carving game is a legitimate children’s game that’s played in South Korea – sans gory demises.
From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021
As a way of pondering her parents’ demises, Cross has drawn ancient weapons — spiked, curved, jagged and blunt.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2017
The effect caused by the first demises which took place in the ranks of the brethren was strange.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
