Descend Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-sĕnd
To descend figuratively
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decline
  2. fall
  3. derive
  4. drop
  5. sink
  6. dip
  7. deteriorate
  8. dive
  9. incline
  10. land
  11. pitch
  12. lower
  13. degenerate
  14. originate
  15. penetrate
  16. slope
  17. stoop
  18. come
  19. settle
To have hereditary derivation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. derive
  2. issue
  3. spring
To lower oneself
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. condescend
  2. stoop
  3. sink
  4. lower
  5. humble oneself
  6. deign
To become lower in quality, character, or condition
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. atrophy
  2. decline
  3. degenerate
  4. deteriorate
  5. retrograde
  6. sink
  7. worsen

Words Related to Descend

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Descend Sentence Examples

  • They worked on him until she felt the helo descend and finally reach the ground.

  • That could only descend in the family to which he had ceased to belong.

  • In Europe the glaciers descend between 3000 and 5000 ft.

  • The testes descend into a scrotum.

  • In front of the wall lies a deep trench, into which several passages descend, as at the nearly contemporary fort of Euryelus above Syracuse (q.v.).

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