Descend vs. Ascend

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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”

  • Descend (verb)

    To enter mentally; to retire.

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • Descend (verb)

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

  • 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”

  • Descend (verb)

    To move toward the south, or to the southward.

  • Descend (verb)

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

  • 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”

  • Ascend (verb)

    To move upward, to fly, to soar.

    “He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.”

  • Ascend (verb)

    To slope in an upward direction.

    “The road ascends the mountain.”

  • Ascend (verb)

    To go up.

    “You ascend the stairs and take a right.”

  • Ascend (verb)

    To succeed.

    “She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.”

  • Ascend (verb)

    To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

    “Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.”

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