descend

1. v. i. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. Source: opted

2. v. i. To enter mentally; to retire. Source: opted

3. v. i. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. Source: opted

4. v. i. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate. Source: opted

5. v. i. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. Source: opted

6. v. i. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir. Source: opted

7. v. i. To move toward the south, or to the southward. Source: opted

8. v. i. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. Source: opted

9. v. t. To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. Source: opted

10. v. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way Source: wordnet

11. v. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example Source: wordnet

12. v. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity Source: wordnet

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