English > descend: 4 senses > verb 1, motionMeaning | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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Model | The airplane is sure to descend |
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Synonyms | fall, go down, come down |
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Caused by | fell, drop, strike down, cut down | Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow |
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lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down | Move something or somebody to a lower position |
Entailed by | chute, parachute, jump | Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute |
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Narrower | alight, climb down | Come down |
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avalanche, roll down | Gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow |
cascade, cascade down | rush down in big quantities, like a cascade |
crash | fall or come down violently |
decline, slump, correct | go down in value |
dive, plunge, plunk | Drop steeply |
drip | fall in drops |
drop | To fall vertically |
flop | fall suddenly and abruptly |
pitch | fall or plunge / plunge forward |
plop | Drop with the sound of something falling into water |
pounce, swoop | Move down on as if in an attack |
precipitate | fall vertically, sharply, or headlong |
prolapse | Slip or fall out of place, as of body parts |
rappel, abseil, rope down | lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside |
set, go down, go under | disappear beyond the horizon |
sink, settle, go down, go under | go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
sink, subside | descend into or as if into some soft substance or place |
tumble, topple | fall down, as if collapsing |
unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down | Alight from (a horse) |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
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Opposite | ascend, go up | Travel up, "We ascended the mountain" |
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rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise | Move upward |
Spanish | bajar, caer, descender |
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Catalan | davallar, descendir |
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Adjectives | descendant, descendent | going or coming down |
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Nouns | descent | a movement downward |
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