Descend

[dɪ'send] or [dɪ'sɛnd]

Definition

(verb.) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; 'The temperature is going down'; 'The barometer is falling'; 'The curtain fell on the diva'; 'Her hand went up and then fell again'.

Inputed by Angela--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) 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 opposite of ascend.

(v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.

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

(v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

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

(v. i.) 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; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

(v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.

(v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

(v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

Typist: Vance

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Fall, sink, drop, go down, come down.[2]. Dismount, alight, get down.[3]. Go, pass, proceed, be transferred.[4]. Originate, be derived, take rise.[5]. Make an attack, make an assault.

v. a. Go down, move down.

Editor: Roxanne

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See ASCEND]

Editor: Megan

Definition

v.i. to climb down: to pass from a higher to a lower place or condition: to pass from general to particulars: to fall upon or invade: to be derived.—v.t. to go down upon: to go to the bottom of.—n. Descend′ant one who descends as offspring from an ancestor.—adjs. Descend′ent descending or going down: proceeding from an ancestor; Descend′ible that may descend or be descended: capable of transmission by inheritance heritable.—p.adj. Descend′ing.—n. Descen′sion.—adj. Descen′sional.—n. Descent′ act of descending: transmission by succession: motion or progress downward: slope: a falling upon or invasion: derivation from an ancestor: a generation a degree in genealogy: descendants collectively.—Descent from the cross a picture representing Christ being taken down from the cross.

Edited by Guthrie