descend
(verb)
verb
1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
Similar word(s): fall
Definition categories: motion, go, locomote, move, travel
2. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- She was descended from an old Italian noble family
Definition categories: stative
3. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Similar word(s): condescend, deign
Definition categories: social, act, move
4. come as if by falling
Definition categories: change, come
Sentences with descend as a verb:
- The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.
- he descended from his high estate
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.