demise
noun
death or decease.
Example Sentences
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By beginning this review with their demises, I haven’t planted a spoiler.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
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
But we can also count on such demises being rendered in ways fitting to how the character lived.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2019
Method of trial for demises alleged to have been unfairly obtained.—5.
From Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson
