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
He has shed them for horses whose demises have haunted him, especially Prairie Bayou, whom he rode to victory in the 1993 Preakness Stakes, which helped make him a big-time rider.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2018
No meagre substitute was supplied by forfeitures, by enforced demises of collegiate, capitular, and episcopal estates, by monopolies, and by letters of marque.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
