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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.

To enter mentally; to retire.

(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.

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

A descent.

Example: continual ascendings and descendings

(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element.

Example: Please arrange these numbers in a descending order.

That causes a sequence to follow a descending order.

Example: We used a descending sort.