descend

de·scend  (d-snd)

v. de·scend·ed, de·scend·ing, de·scends

v.intr.

1. To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

2. To slope, extend, or incline downward: "A rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain" J.R.R. Tolkien.

3.

a. To come from an ancestor or ancestry: He was descended from a pioneer family.

b. To come down from a source; derive: a tradition descending from colonial days.

c. To pass by inheritance: The house has descended through four generations.

4. To lower oneself; stoop: "She, the conqueror, had descended to the level of the conquered" James Bryce.

5. To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale: titles listed in descending order of importance; notes that descended to the lower register.

6. To arrive or attack in a sudden or an overwhelming manner: summer tourists descending on the seashore village.

v.tr.

1.

a. To move from a higher to a lower part of; go down.

b. To get down from: "People descended the minibus that shuttled guests to the nearby . . . beach" Howard Kaplan.

2. To extend or proceed downward along: a road that descended the mountain in sharp curves.

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[Middle English descenden, from Old French descendre, from Latin dscendere : d-, de- + scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]

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de·scendi·ble, de·scenda·ble adj.

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descend

Verb

1. to move down (a slope, staircase, etc.)

2. to move or fall to a lower level, pitch, etc.

3. be descended from to be connected by a blood relationship to

4. descend on to visit unexpectedly

5. descend to to stoop to (unworthy behaviour) [Latin descendere]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	descend - 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" come down, go down, fall prolapse - slip or fall out of place, as of body parts; "prolapsed rectum" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" abseil, rappel, rope down - lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" dismount, unhorse, get down, light, get off - alight from (a horse) avalanche, roll down - gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow dive, plunge, plunk - drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" go under, go down, set - disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days" slump, correct, decline - go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" precipitate - fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" subside, sink - descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" crash - fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea" flop - fall suddenly and abruptly topple, tumble - fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" drop - to fall vertically; "the bombs are dropping on enemy targets" plop - drop with the sound of something falling into water pitch - fall or plunge forward; "She pitched over the railing of the balcony" climb down, alight - come down; "the birds alighted" go under, go down, sink, settle - go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" pounce, swoop - move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" drip - fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet" cascade, cascade down - rush down in big quantities, like a cascade ascend, go up - travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
	2.	descend - 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" derive, come derive - come from; "The present name derives from an older form" hail, come - be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"
	3.	descend - do something that one considers to be below one's dignity deign, condescend act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
	4.	descend - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" settle, fall come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" fall - go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"

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descend

verb 1. fall, drop, sink, go down, plunge, dive, tumble, plummet, subside, move down << OPPOSITE rise get off,

verb 2. go down, come down, walk down, move down, climb down

verb 3. slope, dip, incline, slant, gravitate >> be descended from originate from, derive from, spring from, proceed from, issue from

descend on something or someone attack, assault, raid, invade, swoop, pounce, assail, arrive, come in force

descend to something lower yourself to, stoop to, condescend to, abase yourself by

Translations

descend [dɪˈsɛnd] vt, vi → descender, bajar;

to descend from → descender de;

in descending order of importance → de mayor a menor importancia

descend on vt fus [enemy, angry person] → caer sobre; [misfortune] → sobrevenir; [gloom, silence] → invadir;

visitors descended on us → las visitas nos invadieron

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descend [dɪˈsɛnd] vt, vi → descendre;

to descend from → descendre de, être issu(e) de;

to descend to → s'abaisser à;

in descending order of importance → par ordre d'importance décroissante

descend on vt fus [enemy, angry person] → tomber or sauter sur; [misfortune] → s'abattre sur; [gloom, silence] → envahir;

visitors descended (up)on us → des gens sont arrivés chez nous à l'improviste

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descend [dɪˈsɛnd] vt → hinuntergehen, hinuntersteigen;

(lift, vehicle) → hinunterfahren;

(road) → hinunterführen

vi → hinuntergehen;

(lift) → nach unten fahren;

to descend from → abstammen von;

to descend to → sich erniedrigen zu;

in descending order of importance → nach Wichtigkeit geordnet

descend on descend vt fus → überfallen;

(subj) (misfortune) → hereinbrechen über +acc: (gloom) → befallen: (silence) → sich senken auf +acc;

visitors descended (up)on us descend → der Besuch hat uns überfallen

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descend [dɪˈsɛnd] vt, vi → discendere, scendere;

to descend from → discendere da;

in descending order of importance → in ordine decrescente d'importanza

descend on vt fus [enemy, angry person] → assalire, piombare su; [misfortune] → arrivare addosso a;

(fig) [gloom, silence] → scendere su;

visitors descended (up)on us → ci sono arrivate visite tra capo e collo