descended

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Simple past tense and past participle of descend
An animal that is descended from another sort of animal has developed from the original sort
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A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them. She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord
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To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon

And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.

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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

We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

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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
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{v} to come down or from, spring, sink
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When night, dusk, or darkness descends, it starts to get dark. Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky. = fall
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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
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To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone
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VARCHAR2(4) Whether the column is sorted in descending order (Y/N)
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come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
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{f} go down; be handed down (from generation to generation); lower oneself morally
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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
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To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered
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do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
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To enter mentally; to retire
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come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
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To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; with on or upon
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move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
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If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar She descended one flight of stairs. = go down rise, ascend
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To move toward the south, or to the southward
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emphasis When you want to emphasize that the situation that someone is entering is very bad, you can say that they are descending into that situation. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos. = fall, slide
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To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]
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When a mood or atmosphere descends on a place or on the people there, it affects them by spreading among them. An uneasy calm descended on the area = fall
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To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase ones self; as, he descended from his high estate
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If a large group of people arrive to see you, especially if their visit is unexpected or causes you a lot of work, you can say that they have descended on you. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money
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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
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to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; the opposite of ascend
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disapproval If you say that someone descends to behaviour which you consider unacceptable, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they do it. We're not going to descend to such methods = stoop, sink
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An increase in speed (i e , decrease in time) from one piece to the next during a set Example: "3 X 100 descend" means "swim the first 100 at a moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still " Example: "6 X 100, descend by 3's" means "swim the first 100 at moderate pace, the second a bit faster, and the third even faster still; then repeat this pattern for the next three 100s "
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come down
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    Türkische aussprache

    dîsendıd

    Aussprache

    /dəˈsendəd/ /dɪˈsɛndəd/

    Etymologie

    [ di-'send, dE- ] (verb.) 13th century. Middle English, from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de- + scandere to climb; more at SCAN.

    Gemeinsame Collocations

    descended from
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