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.
Compare descend with other words:
arrive vs. descend
descend vs. fail
descend vs. despend
descend vs. dismount
descend vs. lower
decent vs. descend
cousin vs. descend
descend vs. descendingly
descend vs. occasive
descend vs. originate
descend vs. related
decrease vs. descend
descend vs. plummet
decline vs. descend
descend vs. redescend
ascendent vs. descend
descend vs. netherworld
descend vs. descension
descend vs. lighten
descend vs. descender
descend vs. fuller
descend vs. incline
descend vs. latin
ascend vs. descend
descend vs. descent
consanguineous vs. descend
descend vs. sink
descend vs. succeed
descend vs. subside
condescend vs. descend
descend vs. descendant
descend vs. skeleton
avale vs. descend
cognate vs. descend
alight vs. descend
descend vs. parachute
descend vs. rise
descend vs. dive
descend vs. down
descend vs. stem
descend vs. fall