descend

Meaning

Verb

1. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
2. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
3. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
4. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
5. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
6. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
7. (obsolete) Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
8. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
9. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
10. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
11. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
12. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
13. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
14. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
15. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
16. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
17. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
18. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
19. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
20. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
21. (obsolete) Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
22. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
23. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
24. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.

Noun

Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”)

Synonyms

go down

come down

fall

get off

alight

get down

sink

drop

down

derive

climb down

fall down

dismount

get down from

lower

land

decline

originate

come from

come

settle

set

subside

arise

dive

become lower

leave

attack

👊

touch down

inherit

deplane

detrain

pass on

disembark

quit

droop

drop down

sink down

emerge

exit

bring down

assault

condescend

stem

step

step down

stoop

swoop

flow

charge

get out

carry down

go out

decrease

hand on

move downward

pass down

hand down

deign

handed down

fly at

fly down

jump down

stem from

tumble down

come back from

consume away

come down upon

fall down as

tabefy

travel westwards

abate

go downward

accommodate

arrive

ascend

assemble

be

built

camp

circulate

climb

come into

come off

crash

current

decay

degenerate

descended

disappear

drift

dwindle

fall on

fall upon

finish

float

from

get out of a car

give birth

go under

go up

hang

invade

jump off

landing

light

nosedive

pine

plummet

plunge

pounce

prolapse

recline

sag

settle down

slide

slip down

slope

somebody

something

source

spring

stay

submerge

take down

touchdown

unhorse

unstable

walk down

wilt

wither

be descended

Hyphenated as

de‧scend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈsɛnd/

Etymology

PIE word
*de
The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)).
The noun is derived from the verb.