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Descend (verb)
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 rain descended, and the floods came.”
“We will here descend to matters of later date. rfdatek|Fuller”
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Descend (verb)
To enter mentally; to retire.
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Descend (verb)
or upon}} To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
“And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. rfdatek|Alexander Pope”
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Descend (verb)
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
“he descended from his high estate”
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Descend (verb)
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
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Descend (verb)
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.
“the beggar may descend from a prince”
“a crown descends to the heir”
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Descend (verb)
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
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Descend (verb)
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
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Descend (verb)
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
“they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder”
“But never tears his cheek descended. rfdatek|Byron”
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Ascend (verb)
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
“He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.”
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Ascend (verb)
To slope in an upward direction.
“The road ascends the mountain.”
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Ascend (verb)
To go up.
“You ascend the stairs and take a right.”
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Ascend (verb)
To succeed.
“She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.”
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Ascend (verb)
To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
“Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.”