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descend English

Meaning descend meaning

What does descend mean?
Definitions in simple English

descend Verb

— If you descend, you go down. He descended the staircase to the basement. — If you are descended from someone, you are their younger relative. William II is descended from William I.

descend

— verb (= fall, go down) 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 — verb (= come) 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 — verb (= condescend) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity — verb (= fall) come as if by falling Night fell Silence fell

Synonyms descend synonyms

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descend English » English

go down come down fall get off alight get down sink drop down derive climb down lower get down from fall down dismount land decline originate come from come touch down subside settle set leave dive become lower attack arise swoop stoop step down step stem sink down quit pass on pass down move downward inherit handed down hand on hand down go out get out flow exit emerge drop down droop

Topics descend topics

What do people use descend to talk about?
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move down

Conjugation descend conjugation

How do you conjugate descend?

descend · verb

Examples descend examples

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Simple sentences

I didn't expect his behavior to descend to such a disagreeable level.
Humans descend from apes.

Movie subtitles

That the world and his wife would descend and there'd be more doctors and tests and yet more tests for God knows what reason.
They decide without hesitation and in spite of the danger to descend into the interior of the great crater in which they disappear one-by-one whilst the snowstorm is still raging.
Allan Gray felt a sinister force descend upon him.
From the air, the district known as the Casbah looks like a teeming anthill, a vast staircase where terraces descend stepwise to the sea.
Wherever you look, stairways climb steeply like ladders, or descend into dark, putrid chasms and slimy porticos, dank and lice-infested.
His Excellency is about to descend the stairs.
Descend and make a pilgrimage with me among these mortals.
And bandits descend upon us every night.
I won't descend to the level of such a cheap accusation to answer.
We need several divers to descend to the wreck to search for the specimen.
Judgement Day edges toward evening. The angels descend and the graves open. It will be terrible to see.
Rise, descend, descend, rise, come, go - so does Man until he finally vanishes.
The day is coming when the sword shall descend upon her legions.
Prepare to descend!
May the wrath of Neptune descend upon you and may you never know peace again.
The angels descend and the graves open. It will be terrible to see.
I have to descend lower.
Soon his years and his troubles will descend on him in an avalanche.
And the stars will descend to congratulate me?
For in the book of Numbers it is writ, when the son dies, let the inheritance descend unto the daughter.
I told Aunt Janet this was an awful time to descend on anyone.
You call it strength. but strong men do not descend to such measures.
Finally, Achmed found a lever by the horse's tail and suddenly, the horse began to descend.
We descend the next stop and we join perm by safer means.
The angels descend and the graves open.
This patrol would set up an observation post on Mount Anaka. And 2, it would descend secretly into the Japanese rear and report on enemy strength, weapons, positions, and routes into this area.
The others will descend on you as well.
In fact, if he refuses, we'll descend upon him in force and cut him down.

News and current affairs

Abdullah, perhaps earlier than most others, understood that some code of restraint was needed if the entire region was not to descend into a war of all against all.
Unable to conclude a global trade deal, climate-change agreement, growth pact, or changes in the financial regime, the world is likely to descend into a new protectionism of competitive devaluation, currency wars, trade restrictions, and capital controls.
They rage and love, prance and explode, and finally reach a catharsis (if their team wins) or to descend into hell (if their team loses ).
Kurds will accept the arrangement because they believe that the new constitution guarantees their right to control most of the oil wealth that lies beneath their territory, and because they don't want the blame should Baghdad descend into chaos.
In each case, it is expected that a well-financed relief effort will descend from a wealthier region.
All the religions that descend from Abraham have internal mechanisms for change that allow them to reckon with new circumstances in ways that the confessional community can respect.
For example, when the Arab Spring rebellions erupted in 2011, many Europeans immediately feared that millions of North Africans would descend on their shores.
It was particularly encouraging to see hundreds of global youth ambassadors from 100 countries descend on New York recently to demand the right to education and to support the Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria.
At its worst, any populist movement can descend to demagoguery.
People of good will throughout the world, including those affiliated with multilateral organizations like the UN, should descend on Zimbabwe to observe this month's elections.
Four years of recession and devaluation of the peso, has seen Argentina descend into a veritable economic hell.
The attempt at economic reform and relative political stability took precedence - as certainly it is not in the West's interest to see Russia descend into chaos.

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