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"Descend" Definition

verb-intransitive

To arrive or attack in a sudden or an overwhelming manner: summer tourists descending on the seashore village.
To come down from a source; derive: a tradition descending from colonial days.
To come from an ancestor or ancestry: He was descended from a pioneer family.
To lower oneself; stoop: "She, the conqueror, had descended to the level of the conquered” ( James Bryce).
To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

verb-transitive

To extend or proceed downward along: a road that descended the mountain in sharp curves.
To get down from: "People descended the minibus that shuttled guests to the nearby . . . beach” ( Howard Kaplan).
To move from a higher to a lower part of; go down.

verb

To pass from a higher place or level to a lower one .
To pass in discussion from what is logically prior or more comprehensive.
To originate or come from an ancestral stock or source .
To pass by inheritance .
To pass by transmission .

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