Clues for the word "DEMISE"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 83 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 02, 2025.
Definition of demise
- 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. t. - To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
- v. t. - To convey; to give.
- v. t. - To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
Referring Clues
- End
- Curtains, so to speak
- Downfall
- Bitter end
- Existence ender
- Undoing
- Expiration
- Tragic end
- It may be untimely
- Termination
- Termination of operation
- Death
- Untimely end
- Unhappy ending
- Extinction
- Ultimate end
- Life's conclusion
- Termination of existence
- Collapse
- Tragic
- End of something
- Failure of half the Home Counties
- End in servitude, miserably
- Ending with half a point - Europe's first
- Cheese curtailed by death
- Half and half seen as the end
- Half quarter quarter = 7
- Death leads to half empty senate
- Death to vilify but 7
- End of old EMI's empire
- End that may be untimely
- Failure, termination
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2025
- LA Times - January 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 30, 2024
- USA Today - March 12, 2024
- USA Today - January 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 28, 2023
- LA Times - January 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 09, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2022
- LA Times - January 22, 2018
- USA Today - December 13, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 22, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 11, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - September 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 15, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - May 09, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 25, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - March 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - November 29, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - August 26, 2016
- New York Times - August 19, 2016
- And in 53 more crossword puzzles...