Demise
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
How words are described
| similar | similar demise | similar extinction |
| complete | complete demise | complete extinction |
| certain | certain demise | certain extinction |
| brutal | brutal demise | brutal extinction |
| Other adjectives: actual, bad, quick, gradual, supposed, early, final, awful, apparent, inevitable, impending, imminent, eventual, oncoming, recent, premature, sudden. | ||
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They also dislike it because they're already on the verge of extinction themselves, even though they believe that their racial demise will awaken the death god Ynnead, who will destroy Chaos forever and play this trope straight.
Source: Taking You with Me -
When he first hears of his home world's demise and near-extinction of his race as a child in the Bardock special, he brushes off the message and continues eating from one of the corpses he killed.
Source: Angst? What Angst? -
Fossey, who hears voices in his head and interacts with the monkeys at Danjer Cove, is named after American zoologist Dian Fossey, who is known for saving the mountain gorillas from extinction and from poachers in Rwanda, and who met her sudden, untimely demise on December 26, 1985.
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