[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["death or decease.", "termination of existence or operation:the demise of the empire.", "Law.a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.a conveyance or transfer of an estate.", "a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.", "a conveyance or transfer of an estate.", "Government.transfer of sovereignty, as by the death or deposition of the sovereign."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Law.to transfer (an estate or the like) for a limited time; lease.", "Government.to transfer (sovereignty), as by the death or abdication of the sovereign."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["Law.to pass by bequest, inheritance, or succession."]}]