Synonyms for Descend
dɪˈsɛndde·scend

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1. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

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

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

3. descendverb

   To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic]

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

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

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.

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

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.

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

6. descendverb

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

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

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.

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

8. descendverb

   To move toward the south, or to the southward.

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

9. descendverb

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

   Synonyms:
   go down

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

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

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1. descend

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

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

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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"

   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, descend, come, fall, return, decrease, derive, decline, wane, hang, fall down

   Antonyms:
   ascend, go up

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"

   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, descend, come, fall, get along, make out, do, come in, deduce, add up

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

3. condescend, deign, descendverb

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

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

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

4. fall, descend, settleverb

   come as if by falling

   "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

   Synonyms:
   settle, descend, 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

   Antonyms:
   go up, ascend

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1. • Act
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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. stepped

   it is used in some sentences where we using the words like downstairs.

   i stepped back onto the landing

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   fall, sink, drop, go down, come down

2. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   dismount, alight, get down

3. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   go, pass, proceed, be transferred

4. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   originate, be derived, take rise

5. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   make an attack, make an assault

6. descendverb

   Synonyms:
   go down, move down

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1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3:

   One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.

2. 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.

3. Pliny the Elder:

   The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

4. George Osgood:

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

5. Kahlil Gibran:

   No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.