English Dictionary

descend

/dɪˈsɛnd/

verb

(intransitive) 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.

The eagle gracefully descends from the sky.

意味（1）

(intransitive) 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.

Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.

意味（2）

(intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.

意味（3）

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

more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

He descended from his high estate.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock

意味（7）

to be derived (from)

意味（8）

to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

The beggar may descend from a prince.

意味（9）

(intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.

意味（10）

(intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

意味（11）

(transitive) 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