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descend
English
Etymology
From Middle English decenden, borrowed 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s?nd/
- Hyphenation (US): de?scend; (UK): des?cend
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
descend (third-person singular simple present descends, present participle descending, simple past and past participle descended)
- (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
- 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland: A Novel
- Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge: From the Conquest to the Year 1634
- We will here descend to matters of later date.
- 1611, King James Version, Matthew vii. 25.
- The rain descended, and the floods came.
- 2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland: A Novel
- (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- 2013, Deltrice Alfred Grossmith, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
- more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.
- 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
- 2013, Deltrice Alfred Grossmith, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
- (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
- August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
- He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings.
- August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
- (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
- to be derived (from)
- to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Synonyms
- go down
Antonyms
- ascend
- go up
Derived terms
- descender
Related terms
- descent
Translations
Anagrams
- scended
French
Verb
descend
- third-person singular present indicative of descendre
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descent
English
Etymology
From Middle English and Anglo-Norman descente, from Anglo-Norman descendre (“to descend”); see descend. Compare ascent, ascend. Doublet of desant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??s?nt/
- Homophones: dissent (for some dialects)
Noun
descent (countable and uncountable, plural descents)
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- A way down.
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.
- A falling upon or invasion.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).
Usage notes
- Sometimes confused with decent.
Antonyms
- (going down): ascent
Derived terms
- hypodescent, hyperdescent
Related terms
- descend
Translations
Further reading
- descent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- descent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cedents, scented
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