Antonyms for descend
dɪˈsɛndde·scend

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1. descendverb

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

   Synonyms:
   go down

2. descendverb

   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

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   go down

3. descendverb

   To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]

   [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

   Synonyms:
   go down

4. descendverb

   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.

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   go down

5. descendverb

   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.

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   go down

6. descendverb

   To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   go down

7. descendverb

   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.

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   go down

8. descendverb

   To move toward the south, or to the southward.

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

   Synonyms:
   go down

9. descendverb

   To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

   Synonyms:
   go down

10. descendverb

    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.

    But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

    Synonyms:
    go down

    Antonyms:
    go up, ascend

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. descend

   Antonyms:
   arise, ascend, emanate, flow, issue, proceed, rise, spring

   Synonyms:
   decline, drop, fall, go down, set, settle, sink

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. descend, fall, go down, come downverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

   Synonyms:
   crash, boil down, shine, go down, light, accrue, diminish, set, strike, devolve, sicken, flow, precipitate, settle, go under, reduce, condescend, lessen, come down, sink, deign, pass, come, fall, return, decrease, derive, decline, wane, hang, fall down

2. derive, come, descendverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   deduct, derive, go down, infer, issue forth, gain, come down, amount, total, educe, occur, settle, arrive, number, condescend, come up, hail, follow, fare, deign, get, come, fall, get along, make out, do, come in, deduce, add up

3. condescend, deign, descendverb

   do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   condescend, fall, deign, come down, stoop, derive, patronize, settle, patronise, lower oneself, go down, come

4. fall, descend, settleverb

   come as if by falling

   "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

   Synonyms:
   settle, fall down, lessen, deign, decrease, make up, patch up, return, sink, settle down, go down, square off, flow, precipitate, strike, subside, come down, root, determine, devolve, steady down, go under, reconcile, fall, finalise, ensconce, get back, pass, conciliate, shine, adjudicate, accrue, decide, diminish, derive, square up, hang, resolve, locate, come, nail down, condescend, finalize, light, take root

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How to use descend in a sentence?

1. Valerie Amos:

   For more than four years, we have watched Syria descend into deeper depths of despair surpassing even what the most pessimistic observers thought possible, in the past weeks, we have seen more and more heinous acts. Innocent men, women and children killed, maimed, displaced, and subjected to a savagery that no human should have to endure.

2. Joshua Swamidass:

   But now, clearing up some big scientificunderstandings, we know that all four of these things can be true at the same time, even if Adam and Eve lived as recently as just 6,000 years ago, they would be the genealogical ancestors of everyoneacross the globe by AD 1. They could even have been created de novo, from the dust and a rib. Of course, atthe same time, we would also descend from people outside the Garden, otherswhom God created by a providentially governed process of evolution.

3. Barack Obama:

   We are not well served when, in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic, we don't make good decisions if it's based on hysteria or an exaggeration of risks.

4. Jonathan Martin:

   He knows the politics, culture and history of his state in a way that makes him an invaluable resource for those of us who descend on 'LAS' looking for everything from Harry Reid's latest thinking to the best restaurant on and off the strip.

5. George Osgood:

   If you descend [with a regular leg], your calf breaks in, but with a mechanical leg, it resists.

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