descend
下来,下降,下去,降下
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Definitions
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- : to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down: to descend from the mountaintop.
- : to pass from higher to lower in any scale or series.
- : to go from generals to particulars, as in a discussion.
- : to slope, tend, or lead downward: The path descends to the pond.
- : to be inherited or transmitted, as through succeeding generations of a family: The title descends through eldest sons.
- : to have a specific person or family among one's ancestors: He is descended from Cromwell.
- : to be derived from something remote in time, especially through continuous transmission: This festival descends from a druidic rite.
- : to approach or pounce upon, especially in a greedy or hasty manner: Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime.
- : to settle, as a cloud or vapor.
- : to appear or become manifest, as a supernatural being, state of mind, etc.: Jupiter descended to humankind.
- : to attack, especially with violence and suddenness: to descend upon enemy soldiers.
- : to sink or come down from a certain intellectual, moral, or social standard: He would never descend to baseness.
- : Astronomy. to move toward the horizon, as the sun or a star.
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- : to move downward upon or along; go or climb down.
- : to extend or lead down along: The path descends the hill.
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Examples
Just because someone has descended into QAnon doesn’t mean they can’t come back from it.
Newspaper reporters spouted them 24 years ago this month when the media descended to cover the 1996 GOP National Convention, more than two decades after our first bid for a Republican confab went kablooey.
It descends upside down, like a giant knife, above Cain and Abel.
After “hopping” into the air, the vehicle skirted sideways a little before coming back to the ground, deploying six landing legs before successfully descending.
If you could shrink small enough to descend the genetic helix of any animal, plant, fungus, bacterium or virus on Earth as though it were a spiral staircase, you would always find yourself turning right — never left.
Earlier this month, Toledo, Ohio, watched its municipal water supply descend into an undrinkable stew of algal toxins.
Even before she could descend to tell her story, rumors were spreading to discredit her.
Just one more note of caution before we descend down the rapids of morality and ethics.
Thousands of bands descend on Austin, Texas, for the South By Southwest music festival.
So they had to make me this waterproof renaissance gown and I would have to descend into the hot tub for rehearsal.
As he was about to descend the tree to feed upon his victim, his wicked eyes saw the hunters for the first time.
Laidlaw said nothing, but sprang to the head of the ladder, got carefully upon it, and began steadily to descend with Susy.
This contempt for the masses they cherish until they have to descend from Parnassus and enter the public service.
When about to descend himself, his brother cuts the cord and leaves him a prisoner on the mountain.
Courage, my child,” he says; “see, we have gone a great distance; to-morrow before sundown we shall descend in Belgium.