All demised synonyms
deΒ·mise
D d verb demised
- dissipate β to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- weaken β to make weak or weaker.
- devour β If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
- waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- yield β to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- fritter β to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- cede β If someone in a position of authority cedes land or power to someone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
- apportion β When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
- legate β an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- devise β If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
- confide β If you confide in someone, you tell them a secret.
- will β Wallace, 1875β1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
- transmit β to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- bequeath β If you bequeath your money or property to someone, you legally state that they should have it when you die.
- allot β If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
- consign β To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there.
- commit β If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
- refer β to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- bequest β A bequest is money or property which you legally leave to someone when you die.
- assign β If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- ebb β the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- wane β to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- dwindle β to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
- discontinue β to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- dissolve β to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- fade β to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- vanish β to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- disappear β to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- collapse β If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- pass β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- corrupt β Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- decompose β When things such as dead plants or animals decompose, or when something decomposes them, they change chemically and begin to decay.
- knuckle under β a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- eat crow β any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- flake out β flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.
- give out β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- pack it in β a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- throw in the towel β an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- drop off β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- kick the bucket β a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
- give up the ghost β the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- breathe one's last β When someone breathes their last, they die.
- pass away β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- run through β an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
- fold up β a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
- pass on β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- use up β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.