'Descend' definitions:

Definition of 'descend'

(from WordNet)
verb
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, fall, go down, come down] [ant: arise, ascend, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise]
verb
Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive, come, descend]
verb
Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity [syn: condescend, deign, descend]
verb
Come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend, settle]

Definition of 'Descend'

From: GCIDE
  • Descend \De*scend"\, v. t. To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. [1913 Webster]
  • But never tears his cheek descended. --Byron. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Descend'

From: GCIDE
  • Descend \De*scend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Descended; p. pr. & vb. n. Descending.] [F. descendre, L. descendere, descensum; de- + scandere to climb. See Scan.]
  • 1. 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; -- the opposite of ascend. [1913 Webster]
  • The rain descended, and the floods came. --Matt. vii. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • We will here descend to matters of later date. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
  • [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. 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; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Anat.) To move toward the south, or to the southward. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mus.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'descend'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Descend'