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descend::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | come down, fall, go down |
| Type of | locomote, travel, move, go |
| Has types | drip, drop, flop, get down, get off, go down, go under, light, pitch, plop, plunge, plunk, pounce, precipitate, prolapse, rappel, roll down, rope down, set, settle, sink, slump, subside, swoop, topple, tumble, abseil, unhorse, alight, avalanche, cascade, cascade down, climb down, correct, crash, decline, dismount, dive |
| Derivation | descendant, descendent, descent |
descend::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | condescend, deign |
| Type of | move, act |
Examples of descend
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Rooters would descend via train or steamship and stay overnight in local hotels.
From the thenewstribune.com
Only summer's festivities descend in an unbroken line from the pagan party time.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The top eight teams descend on Birmingham's Fair Park Arena, beginning March 11.
From the al.com
On April 26, the group will descend on Sunnyside to put 400 trees in the ground.
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Some companies will be reinvigorated, and others will descend into their dotage.
From the boston.com
Diaz first tried to use a telescopic wand to get the cat to voluntarily descend.
From the ocregister.com
Buyers and foodies alike descend to see where the culinary barometer is tilting.
From the tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
If I am at the front line when aliens descend to Earth, we'll all be in trouble.
From the learning.blogs.nytimes.com
He used a rope left by window washers to descend to a landing on the 17th floor.
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- 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"
- Derive: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- Condescend: do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Fall: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- Descending(a): coming down or downward
- (descent) a movement downward
- (Descending (Psychic TV album)) Descending is a live album by Psychic TV. The album was recorded live in Rouen, France at the "Exo 7" on June 01, 1984. Initial copies came with an oversized booklet. Later copies came in a jewel-case with standard booklet and were limited to 5000 numbered copies.
- (Descent (aircraft)) A descent during air travel is any portion where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are an essential component of an approach to landing. ...
- (Descent (category theory)) In mathematics, the idea of descent has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. ...
