descend

de·scend

 (dĭ-sĕnd′)

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 be related by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation: He descends from Norwegian immigrants.

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 overwhelming manner: summer tourists descending on the seashore village.

v.tr.

1. To move from a higher to lower part of; go down: I descended the staircase into the basement.

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

Idiom:

be descended from

To be related to (an ancestor) by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation: She claims to be descended from European royalty.

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

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de·scend′i·ble, de·scend′a·ble adj.

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descend

(dɪˈsɛnd)

vb (mainly intr)

1. (also tr) to move, pass, or go down (a hill, slope, staircase, etc)

2. (of a hill, slope, or path) to lead or extend down; slope; incline

3. to move to a lower level, pitch, etc; fall

4. (Genetics) (often foll by from) to be connected by a blood relationship (to a dead or extinct individual, race, species, etc)

5. (Anthropology & Ethnology) (often foll by from) to be connected by a blood relationship (to a dead or extinct individual, race, species, etc)

6. (Genetics) to be passed on by parents or ancestors; be inherited

7. to sink or come down in morals or behaviour; lower oneself

8. (often foll by: on or upon) to arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming way: their relatives descended upon them last week.

9. (Celestial Objects) (of the sun, moon, etc) to move towards the horizon

[C13: from Old French descendre, from Latin dēscendere, from de- + scandere to climb; see scan]

desˈcendable adj

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de•scend

(dɪˈsɛnd)

v.i.

1. to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down: to descend from the mountaintop.

2. to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series.

3. to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion.

4. to slope, tend, or lead downward: The path descends to the pond.

5. to be inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family: The title descends through eldest sons.

6. to be derived from something remote in time, esp. through continuous transmission: a festival descending from a druidic rite.

7. to attack or approach as if attacking (usu. fol. by on or upon): Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime.

8. to settle, as a cloud or vapor.

9. to sink or come down from a certain standard or level of behavior; stoop: You must never descend to bickering.

v.t.

10. to move downward upon or along; go or climb down (stairs, a hill, etc.).

11. to extend or lead down along.

12. descend or be descended from, to have a certain ancestor or ancestry: We are descended from the kings of Ireland.

[1250–1300; < Old French descendre < Latin dēscendere=dē- de- + -scendere, comb. form of scandere to climb]

de•scend′i•ble, de•scend′a•ble, adj.

de•scend′ing•ly, adv.

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descend

To descend means to move downwards to a lower level.

The valley becomes more exquisite as we descend.

The lift descended one floor.

Descend is a formal or literary word. When someone or something moves downwards to a lower level, you normally say that they go down or come down.

First she went down to the basement to throw the morning's load of laundry from the washer into the dryer.

He stood at the foot of the stairs calling for her to come down.

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descend

Past participle: descended
Gerund: descending

Imperative

descend

descend

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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 Disaster struck as the plane descended through the mist.
fall rise, scale, mount, climb, go up, soar, ascend

2. get off, alight, disembark, dismount, debus, deplane, detrain The bus stopped and three people descended.

3. go down, come down, walk down, move down, climb down Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.

4. slope, decline, sink, dip, incline, slant, fall away, gravitate The path descended steeply to the rushing river.

be descended from originate from, derive from, spring from, proceed from, issue from, be a descendant of He was proud to be descended from tradesmen.

descend on something or someone attack, assault, raid, invade, swoop, pounce, assail, arrive, come in force, arrive in hordes Drunken mobs descended on their homes.

descend to something lower yourself, resort, stoop, be reduced, condescend, deign, humble yourself, debase yourself, abase yourself She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.

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descend

verb

1. To move downward in response to gravity:

drop, fall.

2. To slope downward:

decline, dip, drop, fall, pitch, sink.

3. To have hereditary derivation:

derive, issue, spring.

Idiom: trace one's descent.

4. To bring oneself down to a lower level of behavior:

lower, sink, stoop.

5. To become lower in quality, character, or condition:

atrophy, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, retrograde, sink, worsen.

Idioms: go bad, go to pot, go to seed , go to the dogs.

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Translations

يَنْحَدِريَنْحَدِرُيَنْزِلُيُهاجِمُن يَنْقَضُّ

sestoupitsvažovat sezaútočit

gå ned adskrå ned modstige ned

abkommenherfallenheruntersteigenhinabgehensich senken

κατεβαίνω

descenderbajarrebajarseabajar

laskeutua

descendrebaisser

sićisilazitispuštatispustitipotjecati

leereszkediklemegymegrohan

halla niîur á viîkoma niîurráîast skyndilega á

piombarescenderecalarediscendenzadiscendere

降りる

내려가다

būti kilusiam išleistis žemynnuokalnėnusileidimasnusileisti

nokāptnolaistiespēkšņi uzbruktvest lejup

afdalenafstammenvaren

dalegå nedgå nedoverhjemsøkeskrå nedover

zejść

descer

опускатьсяпроизойтипроисходитьснижатьсяснизиться

spustiti se

härstamma

ลงมา

inmeksaldırmakalçalmak

đi xuống

下斜下来下降袭击

descend

[dɪˈsend]

A. VT

1. (frm) (= go down) [+ stairs] → descender, bajar

2. (= originate) to be descended from sb → descender de algn

B. VI

1. (frm) (= go down) → descender, bajar (from de)
see also descending

2. (= invade, take over) to descend (up)on [fog, silence] → caer sobre; [army, reporters] → invadir (hum) [visitors] → invadir
we've got the whole family descending on us this weekend → nos va a invadir toda la familia este fin de semana

3. (= sink) I'd never descend to that level → nunca me rebajaría a ese nivel
to descend to doing sth → rebajarse a hacer algo

4. (= be inherited) [property, custom] → pasar (to a)

5. (= originate) to descend from [+ ancestors] → descender de
his family descends from William the Conqueror → su familia desciende de Guillermo el Conquistador

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descend

[dɪˈsɛnd]

vt [+ stairs] → descendre

vi

(= go down) → descendre

(fig) (= stoop) to descend to sth → s'abaisser à qch
to descend to doing sth → s'abaisser à faire qch

descend on

descend upon vt fus

(= arrive in) [+ place] → envahir

(= come to see) [+ person] → assaillir
The whole family always descended on him at Christmas → A Noël, il était toujours assailli par sa famille au complet.
Visitors descended on us → Nous étions assaillis de visiteurs.

[gloom, silence, calm] → envahir

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descend

vi

(= go down, person) → hinuntergehen, hinabschreiten (geh); (lift, vehicle) → hinunterfahren; (road) → hinunterführen, hinuntergehen; (hill) → abfallen; (from horse) → absteigen; (Astron) → untergehen; in descending order of importance → nach Wichtigkeit geordnet

(= have as ancestor) → abstammen (from von)

(= pass by inheritance, property) → übergehen (→ from von, to auf +acc); (customs) → überliefert werden (→ from von, to auf +acc); (rights) → vererbt werden (→ from von, to auf +acc)

(= attack suddenly) → herfallen (→ on, upon über +acc), → überfallen (on, upon sb jdn); (disease, illness) → heimsuchen (on, upon sb jdn); (= come over, sadness etc) → befallen (on, upon sb jdn); (silence) → sich senken (→ on, upon über +acc)

(inf: = visit) to descend (up)on somebody → jdn überfallen (inf); thousands of fans are expected to descend on the city → man erwartet, dass tausende or Tausende von Fans die Stadt überlaufen

(= lower oneself) to descend to something → sich zu etw herablassen; I’d never descend to sarcasm → ich würde mich nicht dazu herablassen, sarkastisch zu werden; he even descended to bribery → er scheute selbst vor Bestechung nicht zurück; to descend into anarchy/chaos/civil war → in Anarchie/Chaos/einen Bürgerkrieg versinken

vt

stairs → hinuntergehen or -steigen, hinabschreiten (geh)

to be descended from → abstammen von

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descend

[dɪˈsɛnd]

1. vt

a. (frm) (stairs) → scendere

b. to be descended from sb (Genealogy) → discendere da qn

2. vi

a. (go down) to descend (from) → (di)scendere (da); (road) → scendere (da)
in descending order of importance → in ordine decrescente d'importanza

b. (property, customs) to descend from ...to → passare da... a
to descend from generation to generation → tramandarsi di generazione in generazione

descend on descend upon vi + prep (subj, enemy, large group, angry person) → assalire, piombare su (liter) (gloom, silence) → scendere su
visitors descended on us → ci sono capitati ospiti inaspettati

descend to vi + prep (lower o.s. to) to descend to sth → abbassarsi a qc
to descend to doing sth → abbassarsi a fare qc

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descend

(diˈsend) verb

1. to go or climb down from a higher place or position. He descended the staircase. afklim يَنْزِلُ слизам descer sestoupit heruntersteigen gå ned ad κατεβαίνωdescender, bajar laskuma پایین رفتن؛ نزول کردن laskeutua descendre לָרֶדֶת उतरना sići, spustiti se lemegy menuruni koma niður discendere, scendere 降りる 내려가다 nusileisti nokāpt; nolaisties turun afdalen gå/stige ned, dale, synkeschodzić كښته كېدل، له يوى ګنډى څخه زېږېدل، ميراث ورته رسېدل، حمله كول descer a coborî спускаться zostúpiť spustiti se sići gå (komma, fara) ner, stiga (gå) nedför ลงมา inmek 下來 спускатися; сходити اونچے مقام سے نیچے کی طرف آنا xuống 下来

2. to slope downwards. The hills descend to the sea. neerdaal يَنْحَدِر спускам descer svažovat se sich senken skrå ned mod κατηφορίζωdescender langema سرازیر شدن؛ شیب داشتن viettää descendre לָרֶדֶת नीचे आना opadati, spuštati se leereszkedik melandai halla niður á við scendere 下り坂になる 내리막이 되다 leistis žemyn vest lejup turun afhellen gå/skrå nedover, stige ned, falleopadać ، له يوى ګنډى څخه زېږېدل descer a coborî понижаться zvažovať sa spuščati se spuštati se slutta ลาดลงมา inmek, alçalmak 下斜 сходити نیچے کی طرف سرکنا dốc xuống 下斜

3. (with on) to make a sudden attack on. The soldiers descended on the helpless villagers. toesak يُهاجِمُن يَنْقَضُّ нападам внезапно cair sobre zaútočit (na) herfallen vælte ind over επιτίθεμαι ξαφνικά atacar, caer sobre, lanzarse sobre kallale sööstma یورش بردن؛ سر کسی خراب شدن hyökätä se jeter לִפשׁוֹט आक्रमण करना nasrnuti na megrohan vkit menyerang ráðast skyndilega á piombare su 急襲する 습격하다 užpulti pēkšņi uzbrukt menyerang overvallenkaste seg over, overfalle, hjemsøkerunąć حمله كول cair sobre a se arunca (asupra) обрушиваться zaútočiť (na) planiti napasti överrumpla, slå ner på จู่โจม saldırmak 襲擊 нападати, накидатися اچانک حملہ کرنا tấn công đột ngột 袭击

deˈscendant noun

the child, grandchild, great-grandchild etc of a person. This is a photograph of my grandmother with all her descendants. afstammeling, spruit ذُرِّيَّه، نَسْل потомък descendente potomek der Nachkomme efterkommer απόγονοςdescendiente järglane نواده؛ نوه و نتیجه jälkeläinen descendant/-ante צאצא वंशज potomak leszármazott keturunan afkomandi discendente 子孫 자손 palikuonis pēcnācējs keturunan afstammelingetterkommerpotomek زوزات، اولاد descendente descendent, urmaş потомок potomok potomec potomak ättling ลูกหลาน soyundan gelen kimse 後裔，子孫 нащадок کوئی شخص یا شے جس کا کسی سے سلسلئہ نسب ملتا ہے con cháu 后裔，子孙

deˈscent (-t) noun

1. the act of descending. The descent of the hill was quickly completed. afdaling, neerdaling إنْحِدار спускане descida sestup der Abstieg nedstigning κάθοδοςdescenso laskumine نزول؛ فروروی laskeutuminen descenteירידה उतार spuštanje leereszkedés penurunan niðurferð, niðurkoma discesa 降下 내리막 nusileidimas nokāpšana; nolaišanās turun afdalingnedstigningzejście لوېدنه، كوزېدنه،كښته كېدنه، پښت، په ميراث رسېدنه descida cobo­­râre спуск zostup sestop spuštanje nedstigande, nedgång, nedfärd ทางลง iniş 下降 спуск; зниження اترنے کا عمل sự đi xuống 下降

2. a slope. That is a steep descent. afdraand مُنْحَدَر склон descida svah die Senkung skrænt κατήφοροςpendiente, declive, bajada (mäe)veer شیب lasku penteמורד नीचे उतरना nizbrdica lejtő lereng brekka discesa 下り坂 경사 nuokalnė nogāze cerun hellingnedoverbakkezbocze مخ ځوړكيدل، مايل كيدل descida pantă склон svah pobočje nagib sluttning, nedförsbacke ทางลาด bayır iniş 斜坡 схил نزول đường dốc 斜坡

3. family; ancestry. She is of royal descent. herkoms أصْل، نَسَب، سُلالَه произход descendência původ die Abstammung afstamning καταγωγή, οικογενειακή προέλευση ascendencia sünnipära تبار؛ نسب syntyperä origineמוצא वंश podrijetlo (le)származás keluarga ætterni discendenza, famiglia 家系 혈통 kilmė, kilimas izcelsme keturunan afkomstætt, avstamning, arvpochodzenie نسب descendência des­cendenţă происхождение pôvod rod poreklo härkomst, börd การสืบเชื้อสาย ata, soy 血統 походження سلسلئہ نسب dòng dõi 血统

be descended from

to be a descendant of. afstam van يَتَحَدَّر من произлизам от ser descendente de pocházet abstammen von nedstamme fra κατάγομαι από ser descendiente de, descender de põlvnema از تبار کسی بودن؛ از نسل کسی بودن olla jonkun jälkeläinen descendre de לִהְיוֹת צְאֵצָא שֶׁל के वंशज potjecati leszármazott keturunan vera kominn af discendere da ～の子孫である (~의) 자손이다 būti kilusiam iš (par izcelsmi) celties no; nākt no keturunan afstammen van ætte fra, stamme fra د يو څا له نسل څخه اوسيدل ser descendente de a se trage din происходить из pochádzať z biti po rodu voditi poreklo härstamma från มีเชื้อสายของ soyundan gelmek 傳下 вести свій рід; походити від کسی خاندان سے ہونا thuộc dòng dõi 传下

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the noun descendant ends in -ant (not -ent).

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descend

→ يَنْحَدِرُ sestoupit stige ned hinabgehen κατεβαίνω descender laskeutua descendre sići scendere 降りる 내려가다 afdalen gå ned zejść descer спускаться härstamma ลงมา inmek đi xuống 下降

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descend

n. descenso, bajada, movimiento de arriba hacia abajo;

vi. descender, bajar, derivarse.

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