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- DictionaryDe·scend/dəˈsend/
verb
- 1. move or fall downward: "the aircraft began to descend"
- 2. (of stairs, a road or path, or a piece of land) be on a slope or incline and extend downward: "a side road descended into the forest"
The meaning of DESCEND is to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one. How to use descend in a sentence.
The meaning of DESCENT is derivation from an ancestor : birth, lineage. How to use descent in a sentence.
DESCEND definition: 1. to go or come down: 2. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night…. Learn more.
Descend definition: to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down. See examples of DESCEND used in a sentence.
Definition of descend verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. synonyms: come down, fall, go down. see more. lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside. gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow. descend into or as if into some soft substance or place.
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.
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 move from a higher to a lower place; come down or go down. To pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc. To slope or extend downward. To be related by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation. He descends from Norwegian immigrants.
Jun 27, 2024 · Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate . Synonym: degenerate. The meeting descended into chaos. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence .
