Descend ¹

Definition: 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.

Descend ²

Definition: To enter mentally; to retire.

Descend ³

Definition: To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; with on or upon.

Descend ⁴

Definition: To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

Descend ⁵

Definition: 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.

Descend ⁶

Definition: To move toward the south, or to the southward.

Descend ⁷

Definition: To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

Descend ⁸

Definition: 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.

descend ⁹

Definition: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

descend ¹⁰

Definition: 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"

descend ¹¹

Definition: do something that one considers to be below one''s dignity

descend ¹²

Definition: 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"