ALL meanings of descend
de·scend
D d - verb descend If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level. 3
- verb descend When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. 3
- verb descend If a large group of people arrive to see you, especially if their visit is unexpected or causes you a lot of work, you can say that they have descended on you. 3
- verb descend When night, dusk, or darkness descends, it starts to get dark. 3
- verb descend If you say that someone descends to behaviour which you consider unacceptable, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they do it. 3
- verb descend When you want to emphasize that the situation that someone is entering is very bad, you can say that they are descending into that situation. 3
- verb descend to move, pass, or go down (a hill, slope, staircase, etc) 3
- verb descend (of a hill, slope, or path) to lead or extend down; slope; incline 3
- verb descend to move to a lower level, pitch, etc; fall 3
- verb descend to be connected by a blood relationship (to a dead or extinct individual, race, species, etc) 3
- verb descend to be passed on by parents or ancestors; be inherited 3
- verb descend to sink or come down in morals or behaviour; lower oneself 3
- verb descend to arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming way 3
- verb descend (of the sun, moon, etc) to move towards the horizon 3
- intransitive verb descend to move from a higher to a lower place; come down or go down 3
- intransitive verb descend to pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc. 3
- intransitive verb descend to slope or extend downward 3
- intransitive verb descend to come down (from a source, as from an ancestor) 3
- intransitive verb descend to pass by inheritance or heredity 3
- intransitive verb descend to lower oneself or stoop (to some act) 3
- intransitive verb descend to make a sudden attack, raid, or visit (on or upon) 3
- intransitive verb descend to move toward the horizon 3
- intransitive verb descend to move down the scale 3
- verb transitive descend to move, step, or pass down or down along 3
- noun descend Move or fall downward. 1
- intransitive verb descend physically: go down 1
- intransitive verb descend numbers: get lower 1
- transitive verb descend go down: stairs, slope 1
- verb without object descend to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down: to descend from the mountaintop. 1
- verb without object descend to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series. 1
- verb without object descend to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion. 1
- verb without object descend to slope, tend, or lead downward: The path descends to the pond. 1
- verb without object descend to be inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family: The title descends through eldest sons. 1
- verb without object descend to have a specific person or family among one's ancestors (usually followed by from): He is descended from Cromwell. 1
- verb without object descend to be derived from something remote in time, especially through continuous transmission: This festival descends from a druidic rite. 1
- verb without object descend to approach or pounce upon, especially in a greedy or hasty manner (followed by on or upon): Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime. 1
- verb without object descend to settle, as a cloud or vapor. 1
- verb without object descend to appear or become manifest, as a supernatural being, state of mind, etc.: Jupiter descended to humankind. 1
- verb without object descend to attack, especially with violence and suddenness (usually followed by on or upon): to descend upon enemy soldiers. 1
- verb without object descend to sink or come down from a certain intellectual, moral, or social standard: He would never descend to baseness. 1
- verb without object descend Astronomy. to move toward the horizon, as the sun or a star. 1
- verb with object descend to move downward upon or along; go or climb down (stairs, a hill, etc.). 1
- verb with object descend to extend or lead down along: The path descends the hill. 1
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) (poetic) To enter mentally; to retire. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance. 0
- verb descend (Intransitive Verb) (anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward. 0