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# descend

«descend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go or come down, or to move downwards** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (descend, descends, descended, descending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To descend is to go or come down, or to move downwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#m1)

2) To be descended from someone means to come from them in your family history (to be their great-great-grandchild, and so on). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#m2)

3) To descend on a place means to arrive there suddenly in large numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, descending order means from the biggest to the smallest (9, 7, 4, 2). In science and geography, planes descend to land and climbers descend a mountain. In history and family trees, people are descended from their ancestors. Phrases: descend the stairs, descending order, be descended from, descend on.

### examples

- The plane began to descend towards the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x1)
- We carefully descended the steep hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x2)
- Put these numbers in descending order: 3, 8, 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x3)
- She is descended from a family of sailors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x4)
- Night descended on the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x5)
- Hundreds of fans descended on the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x6)
- The divers descended to the bottom of the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x7)
- She then descended from the chariot and made her reverence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: descended, descending. Noun: descent (going down) and descendant (a person in your family who comes after you). Spelling: «sc» in the middle: de-SCEND. Opposite: ascend. Maths trap: ascending order is smallest to biggest; descending is biggest to smallest.

### In the corpora

- [Birds are living dinosaurs, descended from small feathered meat-eating dinosaurs, and there are about 11,000 kinds of birds alive today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/5/)
- [Tegumai to his Tribe: «Can't a man break his carp-spear without the whole countryside descending on him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/11/)
- [Birds are descended from dinosaurs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/8/)
- [And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1011/)
- [And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.679/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «descend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/descend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.