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descend · ​. [intransitive, transitive] (formal) to come or go down from a higher to a lower level · ​[intransitive] (formal) (of a hill, etc.) to slope downwards. Togglenavigation Redeem Upgrade Help Signin Dictionaries Dictionarieshome English AmericanEnglish Academic Collocations German-English Grammar Grammarhome PracticalEnglishUsage Learn&PractiseGrammar(Beta) WordLists WordListshome MyWordLists Topics Recentadditions Resources Resourceshome TextChecker Signin Dictionaries Dictionarieshome English AmericanEnglish Academic Collocations German-English Grammar Grammarhome PracticalEnglishUsage Learn&PractiseGrammar(Beta) WordLists WordListshome MyWordLists Topics Recentadditions Resources Resourceshome TextChecker Redeem Upgrade Help TOP English English AmericanEnglish AcademicEnglish Collocations PracticalEnglishUsage German-English English-German English AmericanEnglish Entersearchtext DefinitionofdescendverbfromtheOxfordAdvancedLearner'sDictionary descendverb  /dɪˈsend/ /dɪˈsend/VerbFormspresentsimpleI/you/we/theydescend /dɪˈsend/ /dɪˈsend/he/she/itdescends /dɪˈsendz/ /dɪˈsendz/pastsimpledescended /dɪˈsendɪd/ /dɪˈsendɪd/pastparticipledescended /dɪˈsendɪd/ /dɪˈsendɪd/-ingformdescending /dɪˈsendɪŋ/ /dɪˈsendɪŋ/PhrasalVerbs jumptootherresults  [intransitive,transitive](formal)tocomeorgodownfromahighertoalowerlevelTheplanebegantodescend.Theresults,rankedindescendingorder(=fromthehighesttothelowest)areasfollows…descendsomethingShedescendedthestairsslowly.oppositeascendOxfordCollocationsDictionaryadverbquicklyrapidlyslowly…Seefullentry Questionsaboutgrammarandvocabulary? FindtheanswerswithPracticalEnglishUsageonline,yourindispensableguidetoproblemsinEnglish. Joinus JoinourcommunitytoaccessthelatestlanguagelearningandassessmenttipsfromOxfordUniversityPress! Definitionsonthego Lookupanywordinthedictionaryoffline,anytime,anywherewiththeOxfordAdvancedLearner’sDictionaryapp. Wanttolearnmore? FindoutwhichwordsworktogetherandproducemorenaturalsoundingEnglishwiththeOxfordCollocationsDictionaryapp. [intransitive](formal)(ofahill,etc.)toslopedownwardsAtthispointthepathdescendssteeply.oppositeascendOxfordCollocationsDictionaryadverbsteeplygentlygradually…prepositionintotophrasesdescendintochaosdescendintofarcedescendintomadness…Seefullentry [intransitive](literary)(ofnight,darkness,amood,etc.)toarriveandbegintoaffectsomebody/somethingsynonymfallNightdescendsquicklyinthetropics.descendon/uponsomebody/somethingCalmdescendedonthecrowd.WordOriginMiddleEnglish:fromOldFrenchdescendre,fromLatindescendere,fromde-‘down’+scandere‘toclimb’.PhrasalVerbsbedescendedfromdescendintodescendondescendtodescenduponSeedescendintheOxfordAdvancedAmericanDictionarySeedescendintheOxfordLearner'sDictionaryofAcademicEnglishCheckpronunciation: descend Otherresults Allmatches descendon descendto descendinto descendupon descendintosomething descendtosomething descendonsomebody/something descenduponsomebody/something Phrasalverbs descendintosomething descendtosomething descendonsomebody/something descenduponsomebody/something Nearbywords descantnoun descantrecordernoun descendverb descendantnoun descendintophrasalverb equivalent noun     FromtheWordlist OPALspokenwords OxfordLearner'sDictionariesWordoftheDay



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