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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | buying the farm, curtains, defunction, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper, passing, passing away, passing over, quietus, release, silence, sleep, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk, croak, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
Example Sentences
- She packs her rhythmic narrative with nuggets of information about the gold mining municipality's rapid rise and demise.
- Special mouse was a pet phrase in our secret lexicon of intimacy, a lexicon that in many ways led to our demise.
- The larger carriers say their digital buildout will cover any gaps left by the demise of analog service.
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, destruction |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, demise, dissolution, doom, expiration, extermination, extinction, finish, passing, ruin, ruination |
| Antonyms: | birth, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | exit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | adieu, death, demise, departure, egress, egression, evacuation, exodus, expiration, expiry, farewell, going, goodbye, leave-taking, offgoing, retirement, retreat, stampede, withdrawal |
| Antonyms: | arrival, arriving, coming, entering, entrance |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, collapse |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, cave, conclude, consume, crumble, decease, decline, demise, depart, deplete, devour, dissipate, drop, exhaust, expend, expire, fail, finish, fold up, fritter, give, pass away, pass on, perish, run through, spend, squander, succumb, terminate, use up, waste, weaken, worsen, yield |
| Antonyms: | be born, create |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, especially after death |
| Synonyms: | allot, apportion, assign, bequeath, bequest, cede, commit, confide, consign, demise, devise, entrust, give over, hand down, leave behind, legate, refer, transmit, will |
| Antonyms: | hold |
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cease |
| Synonyms: | blow over, cash in, close, decease, demise, depart, die, disappear, discontinue, dissolve, drop, dwindle, ebb, end, evaporate, expire, fade, go, melt away, pass away, perish, peter out, stop, succumb, terminate, vanish, wane |
| Antonyms: | live |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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