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verb
- 1. move or fall downwards: "the aircraft began to descend" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of a road, path, or flight of steps) slope or lead downwards: "a side road descended into the forest" Similar
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DESCEND definition: 1. to go or come down: 2. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night…. Learn more.
1. : to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one. descended from the platform. 2. : to pass in discussion from what is logically prior or more comprehensive. descends from the general to the specific. 3. a. : to originate or come from an ancestral stock or source : derive. descends from an old merchant family. b. : to pass by inheritance.
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.
In its simplest sense, descend means to go or move downward, but there are a couple of subtle variations on this theme. Yes, a bird can descend from the sky, but also, humans are descended from prehistoric ancestors.
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.
descend in British English. (dɪˈsɛnd ) verb (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.
Definition of descend verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
verb. us / dɪˈsend / uk / dɪˈsend / descend verb (POSITION) Add to word list. B2 [ I or T ] formal. to go or come down: The path descended steeply into the valley. Jane descended the stairs. [ I ] literary. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night. Fewer examples.
descend meaning, definition, what is descend: to move from a higher level to a lower o...: Learn more.
