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DESCEND
- Move or fall downward
- Move down (a slope or stairs)
- (of stairs, a road or path, or a piece of land) Be on a slope or incline and extend downward
- Come or go down a scale, esp. from the superior to the inferior
- (of sound) Become lower in pitch
- Act in a specified shameful way that is far below one's usual standards
- (of a situation or group of people) Reach (a state considered undesirable or shameful)
- Make a sudden attack on
- Make an unexpected and typically unwelcome visit to
- (of a feeling or atmosphere) Develop suddenly and be felt throughout a place or by a person or group of people
- (of night or darkness) Begin to occur
- Be a blood relative of (a specified, typically illustrious ancestor)
- to come or go down [v DESCENDED, DESCENDING, DESCENDS]
- to come down [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- (of an asset) Pass by inheritance, typically from parent to child