DESCEND
Definition:
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: fall, go down, come down
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: derive, come
- [verb] do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Synonyms: condeign
- [verb] come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
Synonyms: fall, settle
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Related Words:
- prolapse
- rappel, abseil, rope down
- unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down
- avalanche, roll down
- dive, plunge, plunk
- set, go down, go under
- decline, slump, correct
- precipitate
- sink, subside
- crash
- flop
- tumble, topple
- drop
- plop
- pitch
- alight, climb down
- sink, settle, go down, go under
- pounce, swoop
- drip
- cascade, cascade down
