descend
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
"The rain descended, and the floods came."
2. To enter mentally; to retire.
3. (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
"And on the suitors let thy wrath descend."
4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
"he descended from his high estate"
5. To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
6. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
7. To be derived (from)
8. To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
"A crown descends to the heir."
9. To move toward the south, or to the southward.
10. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
11. To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
"they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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