Descend

Definition: Descend

Descend

Verb

1. 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".

2. 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".

3. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.

4. Come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "descend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Descend

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Description

Detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars, descend to details; itemize.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Speciality

Descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point.

Crosswords: Descend

L' Amour descend du ciel (1957)

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Books

• Descend from Heav'N Urania: Milton's Paradise Lost and Raphael's Cycle in the Stanza Della Segnatura (English Literary Studies, No 35) (reference)

• Le singe descend de l'homme : roman (reference)

• L'espoir n'est pas un nuage qui descend du ciel : poèmes (reference)

• L'homme descend du sphinx : recueil de poèmes (reference)

• L'homme politique descend du singe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Descend EP (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The result of changes of water temperature on fisheries is significant. As water temperatures rise and nutrient levels decline, shoals of cold-water-loving small pelagics scatter and descend to depths of 150 to 200 meters, where they are not accessible to traditional surface purse seiners, or they migrate south. Credit: Fisheries.

Diver with rebreather and heated dry suit prepares to descend into the ice. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Modified Giesbrecht net ready to descend. Plate III, print 6. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 37. Spring messengers with rotating closing mechanisms. In 1923, the Danish scientist Martin Knudsen described and tested this type of messenger. The goal was to find a form and weight of messenger that would rapidly descend a cable without becoming entangled. Subsequently messengers of this type were most frequently used on research ships throughout the world. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Operating on training duty, with six SNJ "Texan" aircraft on deck lined up for takeoff, circa the later 1940s or early 1950s. The photo's original caption reads "The stage is set for the final scene of Basic Training: the flight students will qualify six carrier landings in SNJ 'Texans' and the curtain will descend on the graduation finale.". Credit: NAVY.

The convention city : the national conventions, like an army with banners descend upon the city beautiful. Credit: Library of Congress.

"You call that progress? We descend from monkeys and lose the best part". Credit: Library of Congress.

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We decline, we descend, we fall, we are even overthrown, and we hardly perceive it.

He felt it descend and, seeing himself as he lay, smiled

Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers

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Health

Some researchers question how celiac disease could be so uncommon in the United States since it is hereditary and many Americans descend from European ethnic groups in whom the disease is common. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Asians descend from Indian workers brought to South Africa in the mid-19th century to work on the sugar estates in Natal. (references)

Bolivia

There are small German, former Yugoslav, Asian, Middle Eastern, and other minorities, many of whose members descend from families that have lived in Bolivia for several generations. (references)

Israel

The three broad Jewish groupings are the Ashkenazim, or Jews who trace their ancestry to western, central, and eastern Europe; the Sephardim, who trace their origin to Spain, Portugal, southern Europe, and North Africa; and Eastern or Oriental Jews, who descend from ancient communities in Islamic lands. (references)

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Expressions using "descend": descend from ♦ descend from smb. ♦ descend on ♦ descend on smb. ♦ descend to ♦ descend to particulars ♦ descend upon ♦ to descend. Additional references.

Afrikaans

daal (go down, land), afgaan (Afghan, get, get off, go down), afstap (get, get off, go down). (various references)

Albanian

zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, dip, discount, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, sit down, take a seat), trashëgohem, rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), rrëzohem (cant, fall, pitch, sink, slump, tumble), përulem (abase oneself, cringe, demean, demean oneself, derogate, kotow, kowtow, truckle), katandis (reduce, render), buron (begin, derive, emanate, flow out, gush, proceed, spring, start, stem), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هبط (come down, decline, dive, fall, set down, slump, subside), ‏نقض (break, countermand, dart, disallow, hurl curses, negative, precipitate, rebuttal, recantation, repeal, rescind, storm, swoop, veto), ‏نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, sink, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), ‏تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), ‏تحدر من (come, issue), ‏إنحط إلى مستوى, ‏إنحدر (batter, bevel away, decline, devolve, dip, drop, incline, pitch, run, shelve, slant, slope), ‏إنتقل بالإرث, ‏آل إلى (devolve). (various references)

Basque

jaitsi (descend to, get down to, go down to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спускам (depress, lour, lower, slope), залязвам (go down, set, sink), произхождам (accrue, come from, derive, emanate, evolve, issue, spring, stem, take off), предавам се (capitulate, fall, give in, give oneself, give way to, lend, resign, say uncle, strike, surrender), падам (attach, come down, crash, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Catalan

baixar (go down). (various references)

Chinese 

停止 (Cease, Ceased, Ceasing, Cessation, Descended, Descending, Desist, Desisted, Desisting, stoppage, stopped, stopped-up, stopping, Stopping-out). (various references)

Czech

svažovat se (decline, dip, incline, shelve, slant, slope down), sestoupit (come down, dismount, get down, go down, light), klesat (be on the decline, decline, drop, fall, fall off, go down, lose height, sink, subside, wane). (various references)

Danish

nedstamme (to descend). (various references)

Dutch

naar beneden gaan (get off, go down), afdalen (get off, go down). (various references)

Esperanto

descendi (go down), malsupreniri (get off, go down), malleviĝi (go down). (various references)

Faeroese

stíga niður (go down), ganga oman (go down). (various references)

Farsi 

فرودامدن (Alight, Ground, Perch, Shore), پایین امدن , نزول کردن (Comedown, Sink). (various references)

Finnish

viettää (celebrate, incline slant, pass, slope, spend), mennä alas, laskeutua (alight, come dawn, get down, go down, land, settle, sink, touch down), astua alas (alight, step down). (various references)

French

descendre (detrain). (various references)

Frisian

delgean (get off, go down), ôfstappe (get off, go down), ôfrinne (get off, go down). (various references)

German

herunterkommen (become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, come down, get down, go downhill, go to rack and ruin), abstammen (accrue, be derived, be descended, come, derive, descended, originate, result, spring, to descend). (various references)

Greek 

κατέρχομαι, κατεβαίνω (alight, climb down, come down, come off, dismount, get down, get off, go down, step down), κατάγομαι (come from, stem from), προέρχομαι (come from, come of, derive, emanate, germinate, originate, proceed), φθίνω (consume away, decay, droop, dwindle, pine, tabefy, wilt, wither). (various references)

Hebrew 

ירד (come down), לרדת (come down, down, fall, go down, sag, settle, subside), לצאת מן (leave), לצנוח (fall, sink, slump), לנחות (alight, come down, land, sink, touch down). (various references)

Hungarian

leszáll (alight, come off smth., dismount, down, fly down, get off, land, sank, sunk, to alight, to be down, to dip, to dive, to get down, to get off sy, to light down, to light off, to put down, to sink, to take its perch, to touch down, touch down), lemegy (go down, sank, set, sunk, to be down, to descend, to go down, to sink), lejön (come down, go down, take off, to be down, to come down, to come off, to get down, to get off), leereszkedik (condescend, go down, to climb down, to condescend, to deflate, to descend, to drop to earth), alászáll (go down, sank, sunk, to sink). (various references)

Indonesian

turun (dismount, drop, go down), merendah (be modest). (various references)

Irish

tuirling. (various references)

Italian

scendere (alight, come down, decrease, dip, dismount, drop, fall, get, get down, get off, get out, go, go down, hang down, lower oneself, sink, slope, step down, to go down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降りる (to alight, to descend, to get off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おりる (to alight, to descend, to get off), なだれる (to descend, to slide, to slope), くだる (to descend, to get down), せをくだる (to descend the rapids), かわをくだる (to descend a river), あまくだる (to descend from heaven). (various references)

Korean 

강하하십시요. (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), tarlheim (climb down, descent, landing), faagail (abandon, bequeath, depart, disembark, ditch, flitting, forsake, give up, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, relinquish, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, strand, throw over), cheet neose (alight, challenge, come down, descending, descent). (various references)

Norwegian

stige ned, stamme fra. (various references)

Occitan

davalar (get down, go down). (various references)

Papiamen

bai abou (get off, go down), baha (get off, go down). (various references)

Pig Latin

escendday.(various references)

Polish

zejść (get off, go down). (various references)

Portuguese

descer (come down, down, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, go over, lower, prolapse, sink, step down). (various references)

Romanian

se transmite (run, transmit), se trage (fall, head, issue, originate, stem from), se moşteni, se da jos, se coborî, coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress). (various references)

Russian 

сходить (alight, come off, come off smth., descended, get down, sloughed, sloughs, step down), спускаться (alight, come down, get down, get off, go down). (various references)

Scottish

tuirl , tuirling, teirinn , tèarn, teirinn (come or go down), tearnaich (get off, go down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

voditi poreklo, spustiti se (alight, climb down, land, light, perch, shut in, step down), sići (alight, climb down, come down, get down, get off, get out, go down, light, step down), poticati (come down, come from, derive, flow out, originate, result, stem). (various references)

Spanish

descender (accrue, come, derive, fall, fall away, get off, go down, like, originate, ramp, result, sink), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Sranan

saka (bag, get off, go down, sack). (various references)

Swedish

stiga ned, minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane). (various references)

Thai

เอียง (dip, heel, skew, slantwise, tilt), สืบทอดมา, ลงมา. (various references)

Turkish

alçalmak (abase oneself, bastardize, derogate, dip, drop, ebb, get off, go down, set, sink, stoop, subside). (various references)

Turkmen 

dьюmek (come down, dismount). (various references)

Ukrainian

сходити (alight, arise, ascend, dismount, get off, get up, rise, slough off, swarm up, uprise, walk down), спускатися (alight, come down, get down, go down, hang down, walk down), знижуватися (lower, run low, weaken, wither), походити (accrue, deduce, derive, originate, stem), переходити (devolve, move about, move around, overgo, overpass, proceed, switch over, verge, vest). (various references)

Welsh

disgyn (alight, drop, fall, let down), hanfod (essence, issue). (various references)

Yucatec

eemel (get off, go down). (various references)

descendam, descendamus, descendant, descendas, descendat, descendatis, descende, descendebant, descendebat, descendendi, descendens, descendent, descendente, descendentem, descendentes, descendentibus, descendentis, descendentium, descendentque, descenderant, descenderat, descendere, descenderem, descenderent, descenderes, descenderet, descenderint, descenderintque, descenderit, descendero, descenderunt, descenderuntque, descendes, descendet, descendetis, descendi, descendimus, descendique, descendissent, descendisset, descendissetque, descendisti, descendit, descendite, descenditis, descenditque, descendo, descendunt, descensione, descensu, descensum, descensus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "descend": descendant, descendants, descended, descendent, descendents, descender, descenders, descendible, descending, descends. (additional references)

Words ending with "descend": condescend. (additional references)

Words containing "descend": condescended, condescendence, condescendences, condescending, condescendingly, condescends, undescended. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Descend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deccend, decend, descand, desce, descind, desden, desend, desiend, dessend, dessin, dicendi, discen, discend, docendi, reascend. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scended.

-1 letter: censed, sended.

-2 letters: ceded, cedes, cense, deeds, denes, dense, ended, needs, scend, scene.

-3 letters: cede, cees, deed, dees, dene, dens, ends, need, seed, seen, send, sene, sned.

-4 letters: cee, dee, den, eds, end, ens, nee, sec, see, sen.

-5 letters: de, ed, en, es, ne.

+1 letter: ascended, descends, seconded.

+2 letters: condensed, decadents, decedents, descanted, descended, descender, discerned, exscinded, rescinded.

+3 letters: codesigned, condescend, considered, damascened, decadences, decisioned, descendant, descendent, descenders, descending, dissidence, prescinded, reascended, undecideds.

+4 letters: condescends, crescendoed, crowdedness, decadencies, decahedrons, decidedness, decongested, decrescendo, dependances, dependences, descendants, descendents, descendible, despondence, despondency, diffidences, disinfected, dissidences, incandesced, recondensed, transcended, underscored, undescended, unscheduled.

+5 letters: candidnesses, codefendants, codependents, condescended, corresponded, decrescendos, dejectedness, dependencies, despondences, detachedness, directedness, discommended, disconcerted, disconnected, discontented, disenchanted, disobedience, educatedness, merchandised, nonscheduled, reconsidered, rediscounted, redundancies, relandscaped, rodenticides, secludedness, superinduced, unconsidered, undecomposed, undiscovered.