Descend | Mean of descend in English Dictionary
/dɪˈsɛnd/
- Verb
- to go down
- Wait for the elevator to descend.
- The workers descended into the hole.
- The submarine was descending.
- They descended from [=got down from] the platform.
- A herd of goats descended into the valley.
- The airplane will descend to a lower altitude soon.
- Descending the mountain was even more dangerous than climbing/ascending it.
- The children descended the staircase silently.
- descend a ladder
- to slope or lead downward
- The path descends to the river.
- The stairs descended into the tunnel.
- to go or change to a worse state or condition
- After his wife died, he descended [=sank] into a deep depression.
- The classroom descended into chaos after the teacher left.
- to appear or happen like something that comes down from the sky
- As night descended, the campers built a fire.
- The invaders descended on the village without warning. [=the invaders attacked without warning]
- In autumn/fall, thousands of students descend on/upon [=visit] our town.
- Silence descended upon the crowd. [=the crowd became silent]
- to have (something or someone in the past) as an origin or source
- Recent evidence supports the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.
- The plants descend from a common ancestor.
- The tradition descends from [=comes from] an ancient custom.
- They claim to be descended from a noble British family.
- to become owned by (someone) when the former owner has died
- The estate descended to her from her grandparents. [=she inherited the estate from her grandparents]
- to lower yourself by doing (something)
- She was desperate for money, but she would not descend to [=(more commonly) stoop to] asking her friends for help.