Sekirov Dictionary

descend

UK /dɪˈsɛnd/US /dəˈsɛnd/

verb24

  1. To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
  2. To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
  3. Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
  4. Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
  5. Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
  6. (figurative) Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
  7. (figurative) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
  8. Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
  9. (figurative) Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
  10. Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
  11. To slope or stretch downwards.
  12. (figurative) Of a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
  13. (figurative) To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
  14. (figurative) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
  15. (figurative) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
  16. Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
  17. Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
  18. To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
  19. (figurative) Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
  20. (figurative) In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
  21. (literary, figurative) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
  22. (no longer used) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
  23. (no longer used) Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner.
  24. (no longer used, rare) To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations.

noun1

  1. (no longer used) Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”).
forms

descended · descendedst · descending · descendeth · descends · descendest

Phrases with descend

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