Synonym: decline, drop, fall, plunge. Antonym: ascend, rise. Similar words: adolescent, acquiescence, scene, scent, scenario, describe, description, rescue. Meaning: [dɪ'send] v. 1. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way 2. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example 3. do something that one considers to be below one's dignity 4. come as if by falling.
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31. He attempted to descend a steep staircase which had no handrail, whilst holding a small child by the hand.
32. The command module would then descend to the sea on its parachutes.
33. It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
34. Descend steeply from Hor Point to a stile, then ascend to a squeeze gap.
35. The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs.
36. Another visitor who arrived just before the Bigelow party took one look at the flimsy contrivance and declined to descend.
37. From here descend into Liddesdale, aiming towards a group of large green farm sheds across the valley.
38. As you descend, you will slowly begin to feel the mystery and dankness of Carlsbad.
39. All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
40. After debate the team concluded that they had to grin and bear it rather than descend into paranoia.
41. Ruth's legs were soon aching with climbing steps, only to turn and descend another staircase in the opposite direction.
42. I descend the narrow, creaky staircase and notice another public-service-law-oriented program on the lower floors.
43. He forced himself to bow politely, and then turned away and began to descend the stairs.
44. Behind the fishermen, steps led around the cliff to descend through a grated passage into Carolina's Cave.
45. However, it is important that we do not descend to their level.
46. It indicated a willingness to descend to the political arena in circumstances other than those of national crisis.
47. From there he would descend and regale visitors with his anecdotes,[sentencedict.com] causing queues to form far down the drive.
48. As one tank approaches the top of the incline, the other begins to descend into the water at the lower level.
49. Elsewhere, local authority treatment could descend to little more than fashionable mediocrity.
50. She reached the far side of the ridge and heard children's voices as she began to descend.
51. To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.
52. Behind him, the lift shuddered and began to descend to the ground floor.
53. In very hot weather, the workers descend tunnels that go deep into the ground to the water table.
54. That soon changed once the jet had started to descend into its approach and landing into Pulkovo Airport.
55. As dawn began to lighten the sky they topped the rise of another mist-shrouded valley and began to descend the other side.
56. Delaney dropped to his belly and snake-like began to descend, head first, down the ladder.
57. What do I do there in my rooms before I descend the stairs, return through the door, and wake?
58. As the land sank toward An Khe, I reduced the collective and let the ship descend slowly.
59. Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
60. Vertical pitches descend 250 feet to an immense cavern, second in dimensions only to the chamber in Gaping Gill.
More similar words: adolescent, acquiescence, scene, scent, scenario, describe, description, rescue, telescope, design, modest, desert, prescription, Cent., besides, designs, despite, dessert, on a large scale, desperate, designer, design for, center, recent, accent, per cent, decent, century, central, license.