Descend meaning

dĭ-sĕnd

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To lower oneself; stoop.

verb

To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

verb

To slope, extend, or incline downward.

verb

To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale.

Titles listed in descending order of importance; notes that descended to the lower register.

verb

To descend is defined as to go downward, to become lower in pitch, reaching an undesirable state or can refer to a surprise attack or unwelcome visit.

An example of descend is when a plane starts to move down or descend before landing.

An example of descend is when a hill goes in a downward direction.

An example of descend is when a musician starts to lower his voice and sing deeper notes.

An example of descend is when you slip into being insane.

An example of descend is when a party gets out of control and turns into chaos.

An example of descend is when your in-laws show up at your house for a surprise visit.

verb

To extend or proceed downward along.

A road that descended the mountain in sharp curves.

verb

To arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming manner.

Summer tourists descending on the seashore village.

verb

To move from a higher to lower part of; go down.

I descended the staircase into the basement.

verb

To move from a higher to a lower place; come down or go down.

verb

To pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc.

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To slope or extend downward.

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To come down (from a source, as from an ancestor)

He is descended from pioneers.

verb

To pass by inheritance or heredity.

The estate descended to the nephew.

verb

To lower oneself or stoop (to some act)

verb

To make a sudden attack, raid, or visit (on or upon)

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(astron.) To move toward the horizon.

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(music) To move down the scale.

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To move, step, or pass down or down along.

verb

(intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.

The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.

We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

verb

(intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.

verb

(intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.

verb

(intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self.

He descended from his high estate.

verb

(intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

verb

(intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.

The beggar may descend from a prince.

A crown descends to the heir.

verb

(intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.

verb

(intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

verb

To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

They descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

verb

be descended from

To be related to (an ancestor) by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation:

She claims to be descended from European royalty.

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Origin of descend

Middle English descenden from Old French descendre from Latin dēscendere dē- de- scandere to climb skand- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English decenden, from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, past participle descensus (“to come down, go down, fall, sink”), from de- (“down”) + scandere (“to climb”). See scan, scandent. Compare ascend, condescend, transcend.

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