descend

descend is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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; -- the opposite of ascend. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. 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; -- the opposite of ascend.
2. intransitive verb. To enter mentally; to retire.
3. intransitive verb. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
4. intransitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
6. intransitive verb. 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.
7. intransitive verb. To move toward the south, or to the southward.
8. intransitive verb. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. verb. come as if by falling

    "Night fell"

    "Silence fell"

    Synonyms: fall, settle

11. verb. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

    "The temperature is going down"

    "The barometer is falling"

    Synonyms: fall

12. verb. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

    Synonyms: condescend, deign

13. verb. 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: come, derive

Synonyms

fall, settle, condescend, deign, come, derive

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in descend:

scended

Common word forms

descends, descended, descender, descending, descendable

Words from these letters

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