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. Philo Judaeus:

   The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

2. Richard Madgwick:

   These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes.

3. 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.

4. Boris Sauterey:

   Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where?

5. Buzz Aldrin:

   We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home.