Synonyms for Descending
de·scend·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. descending(a)adjective

   coming down or downward

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1. List of paraphrases for "descending":

   top-down, descendant, decreasing, desc, downstream, declining, downshift, down, ilah

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1. Edward Fine:

   The woman who gave me the wet paper towel as we descended the stairs and which I later used to breathe through; the firefighters who were ascending the stairs as we were descending; the Catholic priest who put his hand on my shoulder and prayed for us as we lay on the street being covered by dust and debris, then there was the bus driver who took us uptown… those people all come to my mind.

2. Peter Anderson:

   Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale.

3. Governor Andrew Cuomo:

   Our behavior affects the number of cases, they are not descending on us from heaven.

4. Fulton County:

   It seemed like we were descending into this third-world mentality, i never expected that out of this country.

5. Prosecutor Creighton Waters:

   After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes, and also whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him, this defendant is the one person who was living a lie, the defendant is the person on which a storm was descending, and the defendant was a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him.