DESCEND as VERB

1. Meaning
   • come as if by falling
   Synonym(s)
   • fall (what does fall mean?)
   • settle (what does settle mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • Night fell
   • Silence fell
   Hypernyms(s) descend is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • come (what does come mean?)
2. Meaning
   • move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
   Synonym(s)
   • come down (what does come down mean?)
   • fall (what does fall mean?)
   • go down (what does go down mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • The temperature is going down
   • The barometer is falling
   • The curtain fell on the diva
   • Her hand went up and then fell again
   Hypernyms(s) descend is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • travel (what does travel mean?)
   • go (what does go mean?)
   • move (what does move mean?)
   • locomote (what does locomote mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • rise (what does rise mean?)
   • lift (what does lift mean?)
   • arise (what does arise mean?)
   • move up (what does move up mean?)
   • go up (what does go up mean?)
   • come up (what does come up mean?)
   • uprise (what does uprise mean?)
   • ascend (what does ascend mean?)
   • go up (what does go up mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • prolapse (what does prolapse mean?)
   • rappel (what does rappel mean?)
   • abseil (what does abseil mean?)
   • rope down (what does rope down mean?)
   • unhorse (what does unhorse mean?)
   • dismount (what does dismount mean?)
   • light (what does light mean?)
   • get off (what does get off mean?)
   • get down (what does get down mean?)
   • avalanche (what does avalanche mean?)
   • roll down (what does roll down mean?)
   • dive (what does dive mean?)
   • plunge (what does plunge mean?)
   • plunk (what does plunk mean?)
   • set (what does set mean?)
   • go down (what does go down mean?)
   • go under (what does go under mean?)
   • decline (what does decline mean?)
   • slump (what does slump mean?)
   • correct (what does correct mean?)
   • precipitate (what does precipitate mean?)
   • sink (what does sink mean?)
   • subside (what does subside mean?)
   • crash (what does crash mean?)
   • flop (what does flop mean?)
   • tumble (what does tumble mean?)
   • topple (what does topple mean?)
   • drop (what does drop mean?)
   • plop (what does plop mean?)
   • pitch (what does pitch mean?)
   • alight (what does alight mean?)
   • climb down (what does climb down mean?)
   • sink (what does sink mean?)
   • settle (what does settle mean?)
   • go down (what does go down mean?)
   • go under (what does go under mean?)
   • pounce (what does pounce mean?)
   • swoop (what does swoop mean?)
   • drip (what does drip mean?)
   • cascade (what does cascade mean?)
   • cascade down (what does cascade down mean?)
   See Also
   • collapse (what does collapse mean?)
   • fall in (what does fall in mean?)
   • cave in (what does cave in mean?)
   • give (what does give mean?)
   • give way (what does give way mean?)
   • break (what does break mean?)
   • founder (what does founder mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • fall (what does fall mean?)
   • descent (what does descent mean?)
3. Meaning
   • do something that one considers to be below one’’s dignity
   Synonym(s)
   • condescend (what does condescend mean?)
   • deign (what does deign mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) descend is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • act (what does act mean?)
   • move (what does move mean?)
4. Meaning
   • come from
   • be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
   Synonym(s)
   • come (what does come mean?)
   • derive (what does derive mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • She was descended from an old Italian noble family
   • he comes from humble origins
   Derived(s)
   • descent (what does descent mean?)
   • line of descent (what does line of descent mean?)
   • lineage (what does lineage mean?)
   • filiation (what does filiation mean?)
   • lineage (what does lineage mean?)
   • line (what does line mean?)
   • line of descent (what does line of descent mean?)
   • descent (what does descent mean?)
   • bloodline (what does bloodline mean?)
   • blood line (what does blood line mean?)
   • blood (what does blood mean?)
   • pedigree (what does pedigree mean?)
   • ancestry (what does ancestry mean?)
   • origin (what does origin mean?)
   • parentage (what does parentage mean?)
   • stemma (what does stemma mean?)
   • stock (what does stock mean?)
   • descendant (what does descendant mean?)
   • descendent (what does descendent mean?)
   • descendant (what does descendant mean?)
   • descendent (what does descendent mean?)
   • derivation (what does derivation mean?)
   • ancestry (what does ancestry mean?)
   • lineage (what does lineage mean?)
   • derivation (what does derivation mean?)
   • filiation (what does filiation mean?)