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adjective
- 1. moving or sloping downwards: "a rocky descending path"
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1. : to pass from a higher place or level to a lower one. descended from the platform. 2. : to pass in discussion from what is logically prior or more comprehensive. descends from the general to the specific. 3. a. : to originate or come from an ancestral stock or source : derive. descends from an old merchant family. b. : to pass by inheritance.
verb. uk / dɪˈsend / us / dɪˈsend / descend verb (POSITION) Add to word list. B2 [ I or T ] formal. to go or come down: The path descended steeply into the valley. Jane descended the stairs. [ I ] literary. If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night. Fewer examples.
DESCENDING definition: 1. used to refer to a body part that is in a downward direction: 2. used to refer to a body part…. Learn more.
1. To move from a higher to lower part of; go down: I descended the staircase into the basement. 2. To extend or proceed downward along: a road that descended the mountain in sharp curves. Idiom: be descended from.
to move to a lower level, pitch, etc; fall. often foll by from to be connected by a blood relationship (to a dead or extinct individual, race, species, etc) to be passed on by parents or ancestors; be inherited. to sink or come down in morals or behaviour; lower oneself.
descending. (dɪsendɪŋ ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it. All the other ingredients, including water, have to be listed in descending order by weight. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
[VERB noun] [ Also VERB] Synonyms: go down, come down, walk down, move down More Synonyms of descend. 2. verb. When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. [literary] An uneasy calm descended on the area. [V + on/upon/over] A reverent hush descended on the multitude.
