descend in English

verb

1

move or fall downward.

the aircraft began to descend

synonyms: go down, come down, drop, fall, sink, dive, plummet, plunge, nosedive

2

make a sudden attack on.

the militia descended on Rye

3

be a direct blood relative of (a specified, typically illustrious ancestor).

she is descended from Charles II

synonyms: be a descendant of, originate from, issue from, spring from, derive from

verb

go down, come down, drop, fall, sink, dive, plummet, plunge, nosedive
climb down, go down, come down
slope, dip, slant, go down, fall away
alight from, disembark, get down from, get off, dismount
stoop, lower oneself, demean oneself, debase oneself, resort, be reduced
degenerate, deteriorate, decline, sink, slide, fall
come in force on/upon, arrive in hordes on, attack, assail, assault, storm, invade, swoop (down) on, charge
be a descendant of, originate from, issue from, spring from, derive from
be handed down, be passed down, be inherited by
go down, fall, come down
deign, condescend
derive, come
fall, settle

Use "descend" in a sentence

1. The plane began to descend.

2. Our plane started to descend.

3. And then war and chaos descend.

4. Condescend, verb intransitive [Latin See Descend.] 1

5. 1 She would never descend to baseness.

6. Condescend, verb intransitive [Latin See Descend.] 1

7. Let him descend into his own element.

8. She felt gloom descend on her shoulders.

9. On shaking legs he began to descend.

10. What does Abseil mean? To descend by rappelling

11. He felt silence descend and press on him.

12. All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor.

13. Mr. Whitelaw's benevolence would descend like soothing balm.

14. It is easier to descend than to ascend. 

15. U.S., China Descend Into Bickering at Start of Talks

16. 19 Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.

17. Woody and herbaceous secondary Anemophilous angiosperms may descend from zoophilic species.

18. If you insult him back, you descend to his level.

19. But mention God, and an awkward silence may quickly descend.

20. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall.

21. Some rebel clerics found a way to make my pillar descend.

22. I was the first to descend the ladder he had made.

23. However, they tend to descend to lower altitudes during the winter.

24. Bluebottles descend on NSW beaches due to strong north-easterly winds

25. Alight definition, to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc

26. Cryptorchidism definition, failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum

27. The photosynthetic rate descend gradually because of the decrepitude of the leaf.

28. For winter, they descend as low as 5,000 feet, to more tropical forests.

29. Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.

30. This Circuitous approach gives jets lots of time to descend to the airport: 8

31. + that is, to bring Christ down, 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’

32. To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.

33. Every summer, five million cash-rich tourists show up, descend on the place.

34. One might mention an object or a locality, and sepulchral silence would descend.

35. Alpenhorn blowers from the entire world descend on Nendaz for the International Alpenhorn Festival

36. Descend steeply from Hor Point to a stile, then ascend to a squeeze gap.

37. Sorry to descend on you like this, but we had no time to phone.

38. Nautical To uncoil ( an anchor cable ) on deck so the anchor may descend easily.

39. Condescending 1. To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself. 2.

40. Wizards and sorcerers of the world descend upon Albian for the magical convention of …

41. The Macdonalds of Morar descend from Allan, eldest son of Dougall, 6th of Clanranald.

42. 's crater, descend to the sulphur mining area and the turquoise acid crater lake.

43. « Il n'y a pas de mode si elle ne descend pas dans la rue.

44. 15 The trumpets shall sound and the Lord shall descend even so it is.

45. The McDowells might descend from the MacDougals, Lords of Argyll who descend from Somerled whose father-in-law Óláfr Guðrøðarson m arried Fergus's daughter Affraic to solidify alliances

46. Then, descend the Backstairs to view the butler’s suite and the extensive basement kitchen rooms

47. Cryptorchidism refers to the failure of one or both testicles (testes) to descend into the scrotum

48. Refreshing dew results from thousands of tiny water droplets that gently descend, seemingly out of nowhere.

49. Runners then descend 4 miles to Cutthroat Lake (many switchbacks on a 5-10% grade)

50. Through natural aerodynamic braking it will descend continuously while maintaining an orbit close to circular.