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demit

/dɪˈmɪt/

demit verb: to let fall; to depress; to yield.

Verb

demit (third-person singular simple present demits, present participle demitting, simple past and past participle demitted)

  1. (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.
  2. To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun

demit (plural demits)

  1. The act of demitting.
  2. A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

demit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

demit in Tamil

பதவி துறத்தல்

demit in Urdu

استعفا دینا, نیچا کرنا, رخصت کرنا

demit in Bengali

নিচে নামানো, অবনমিত করা, নতি স্বীকার করা, পদ, সদস্যপদ, কর্তৃত্ব ইত্যাদি পরিত্যাগ করা

demit in Kannada

ಕೆಲಸ ತೊರೆ, ಕೆಲಸ ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡು

Forms of demit

Verb
third-person singular presentdemits
present participledemitting
past participledemitted
pastdemitted
Noun
pluraldemits

Origin of demit

From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).

Words that rhyme with demit

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about demit

What does demit mean?
Demit means to let fall; to depress; to yield.
What is demit in Tamil?
Demit in Tamil is பதவி துறத்தல். See Demit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is demit?
Demit can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce demit?
Demit is pronounced /dɪˈmɪt/.
What is the past tense of demit?
The past tense of demit is demitted.

Words near demit in the dictionary

  1. demisted
  2. demister
  3. demisters
  4. demisting
  5. demists
  6. demit
  7. demitarian
  8. demitasse
  9. demitasseful
  10. demitassefuls
  11. demitasses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: demit (page history and authors); demit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); demit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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