English > descend: 4 senses > verb 1, motion| Meaning | 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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