(intransitive) 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 || (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire. || (on) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence. || (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself || (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. || (intransitive) 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. || (astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward. || (music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. || (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
“The two rescue firefighters should position themselves to face forward as they descend the stairs.”
“Within moments, I descend to depths I would have assumed impossible without scuba gear.”
“While there would be a number of steep upward climbs, far more of the path would descend from the mountains.”
adjective
1.Capable of being descended; down which one may go. Somewhat rare.
2.Law. Of property, an entitlement, etc.: that descends or may descend to an heir; transmissible by inheritance.
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