TO 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.
 

Law

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

Crosswords: TO DESCEND

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.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

降落 (to land), 降 (surrender, to come down, to drop, to fall). (various references)

Danish

nedstamme. (various references)

Dutch

afstamming (lineage). (various references)

Finnish

polveutua (be descended from, derive from, descend from, trace one's family back to). (various references)

French

se transmettre par hérédité, passer par hérédité, descendre (to go down, to go in, to land, to lower, to run in). (various references)

German

abstammen (accrue, be derived, be descended, come, derive, descend, descended, originate, result, spring). (various references)

Greek 

κατάγομαι (come from, descend, stem from). (various references)

Hungarian

leszármazik, lemegy (descend, go down, sank, set, sunk, to be down, to go down, to sink), leereszkedik (condescend, descend, go down, to climb down, to condescend, to deflate, to drop to earth). (various references)

Italian

discendere (accrue, come, come down, derive, descend, drop, fall, go down, originate, result, slope down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

おりる (to alight, to get off), な� れる (to slide, to slope), く� る (to get down). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay escendday

Portuguese

descender (deduce, descend). (various references)

Spanish

descender (accrue, come, derive, descend, fall, fall away, get off, go down, like, originate, ramp, result, sink). (various references)

Swedish

härstamma (accrue, come, derive, descend, originate, result). (various references)

2. ed. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: seconded.

-2 letters: cenotes, cestode, decodes, denoted, denotes, descend, descent, docents, encoded, encodes, escoted, scended, scented, seconde.

-3 letters: cenote, censed, centos, codens, contes, costed, decent, decode, denote, dented, docent, donees, eddoes, encode, nested, oddest, second, sended, sodden, stoned, tended, tensed.

-4 letters: ceded, cedes, cense, cento, cents, cetes, coded, coden, codes, coeds, coned, cones, conte, coset.

+2 letters: decongested.

+3 letters: codefendants, codependents, disconcerted, disconnected, discontented, rediscounted, rodenticides.

+4 letters: decompensated, deconsecrated, deconstructed, dinucleotides, rededications.

+5 letters: counterdemands, disconnectedly, discontentedly, endocarditises, overdiscounted, reconsolidated, superconducted, undomesticated.