Antonym: ascent. Similar words: descend, condescend, condescension, senescent, quiescent, adolescent, phosphorescent, obsolescence. Meaning: [dɪ'sent] 
n. 1. a movement downward 2. properties attributable to your ancestry 3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction 4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors 5. a downward slope or bend 6. the descendants of one individual.
n. 1. a movement downward 2. properties attributable to your ancestry 3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction 4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors 5. a downward slope or bend 6. the descendants of one individual. 
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151 He was spared further speculation by the descent of Miss Harker, candle aloft, like a vengeful ghost.
152 The main obstacle was the steep Crooksbury Hill after 19 miles, with the Punchbowl being a descent.
153 Despite the three-hour length, the descent of Kathy Bates's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible.
154 I descended to 500 feet, then continued descending with a Rate 1 on to final and continued the descent to 100 feet.
155 If at a higher speed then reduce to the required figure before commencing descent. 2.
156 The Chief has just made the descent into blindness-Mariama is shocked when he doesn't respond to my outstretched hand.
157 Slowly, he shook his head once or twice,(www.Sentencedict.com) and then began to make the descent.
158 All the same, their multi-instrumental prowess could not save a gradual descent into rock-star bad habits.
159 I was planning to go there when my descent into the horrors began.
160 Bring the localiser into the normal level flight and descent scan routine.
161 He heard their crashing, giggling descent, swinging his beam away from them so they would be in complete darkness.
162 The descent is never-ending - I am glad - until Tony comes towards me.
163 Her fingers tightened on the banister rail, as she paused in her descent.
164 Work out the minimum rate of descent for this outbound leg.
165 The journey always starts with the endless descent to the street.
166 None the less the fact remains that the presence of descent groups tells us nothing directly about domestic organization.
167 Earth arrival is accomplished by aerocapture, followed by descent of the sample container under a parachute.
168 The descent, like a big dipper, is exhilarating but perfectly safe.
169 King Laius of Thebes was the third in descent from Cadmus.
170 As descent always involves modification, resemblance decreases as a shared ancestor recedes into the past.
171 Have all times and minimum rates of descent worked out on a still-air basis first of all.
172 People in trance often begin their journeys by experiencing a descent through a downward tunnel.
173 There is Star-buck, the chief mate of the Pequod, a native of Nantucket and a Quaker by descent.
174 Go left at the post and descent the track leading to a footbridge over a stream.
175 Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
176 There was a fair wind spattering them with rain as they made their descent to the beach.
177 The book tells of the boys' rapid descent into savagery, and the use of torture and terror.
178 Otherwise there have been two possibilities which effectively continue the lines of descent from Hegelian historicism and the history of science.
179 On the slow descent to Bristol airport a creature had attached itself to one of the wings.
180 Harry began to feel nervous again as the plane made its descent.
More similar words: descend, condescend, condescension, senescent, quiescent, adolescent, phosphorescent, obsolescence, acquiescence, behind the scenes, scent, ascent, nascent, reminiscent, transcendent, scene, describe, acquiesce, ascend, descartes, convalesce, scenery, description, scenario, Cent., prescient, escarpment, centre, accent, per cent.