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. Vivek Murthy:

   It was a stressful period where people were worried and staff members were concerned about this pandemic that was descending on our country, the way he would run meetings and to both chart out a path forward, reassure people, his calmness in the face of serious adversity and uncertainty -- those are invaluable qualities that he brought to the operation.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Ekaterina Schulmann:

   [ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.