Descend | Mean of descend in English Dictionary

/dɪˈsɛnd/

• Verb
• to go down
1. Wait for the elevator to descend.
2. The workers descended into the hole.
3. The submarine was descending.
4. They descended from [=got down from] the platform.
5. A herd of goats descended into the valley.
6. The airplane will descend to a lower altitude soon.
7. Descending the mountain was even more dangerous than climbing/ascending it.
8. The children descended the staircase silently.
9. descend a ladder
• to slope or lead downward
1. The path descends to the river.
2. The stairs descended into the tunnel.
• to go or change to a worse state or condition
1. After his wife died, he descended [=sank] into a deep depression.
2. The classroom descended into chaos after the teacher left.

• to appear or happen like something that comes down from the sky
1. As night descended, the campers built a fire.
2. The invaders descended on the village without warning. [=the invaders attacked without warning]
3. In autumn/fall, thousands of students descend on/upon [=visit] our town.
4. Silence descended upon the crowd. [=the crowd became silent]
• to have (something or someone in the past) as an origin or source
1. Recent evidence supports the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.
2. The plants descend from a common ancestor.
3. The tradition descends from [=comes from] an ancient custom.
4. They claim to be descended from a noble British family.
• to become owned by (someone) when the former owner has died
1. The estate descended to her from her grandparents. [=she inherited the estate from her grandparents]
• to lower yourself by doing (something)
1. She was desperate for money, but she would not descend to [=(more commonly) stoop to] asking her friends for help.