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Meaning of descend

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

descend

Pronunciation:/dɪˈsɛnd/

verb

Definitions

  1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

    Example: The rain descended, and the floods came.

  2. To enter mentally; to retire.

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

    Example: And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.

  4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

    Example: he descended from his high estate