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descend as in:  descend the mountain

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    She saw him as he was descending the stairs.
    descending = going down
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    Jack and Jill went up the hill, and then they descended.
    descended = went down
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    I wait, hopefully, for a parachute to descend from the sky.  (source)
    descend = come down
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    We nodded as she slowly descended the stairs.  (source)
    descended = came down
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    Slowly the great creature turned around so that the shadow was behind them, so that they saw only the stars unobscured, the soft throb of starlight on the mountain, the descending circle of the great moon swiftly slipping over the horizon.  (source)
    descending = moving down
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    At least once a day, Hans Hubermann would descend the basement steps and share a conversation.  (source)
    descend = move down
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    The dangling, shiny prize of peace just out of grasp until finally her body descends to the bottom and settles in murky quiet.  (source)
    descends = goes downward
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    3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.†  (source)
    descendeth = moves downward
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She descendeth" in older English, today we say "She descends."
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    And he: "They are among the blacker souls; A different sin downweighs them to the bottom; If thou so far descendest, thou canst see them.†  (source)
    descendest = move downward
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou descendest" in older English, today we say "You descend."
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    In these circumstances there is a total dissimilitude between HIM and a king of Great Britain, who is an HEREDITARY monarch, possessing the crown as a patrimony descendible to his heirs forever; but there is a close analogy between HIM and a governor of New York, who is elected for THREE years, and is re-eligible without limitation or intermission.†  (source)
    descendible = able to move downward upon
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    …is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now on earth with elbows against the cut and slept-on branches of the pine tree with the smell of the pine boughs and the…  (source)
    descendingly = in a manner that moves downward
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    Wearing his new sandals, he descended the stairs silently.  (source)
    descended = walked down
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    At first we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch, but a closer inspection revealed an arc of water descending from the leaves and splashing in the yellow circle of the street light, some ten feet from source to earth, it seemed to us.  (source)
    descending = moving downward
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descend as in:  in descending order

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    The three largest countries in descending order are Russia, Canada, and the United States.
    descending = larger to smaller
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    Print one list by name in alphabetical order and another by amount contributed in descending order.
    descending = moving from larger numbers to smaller numbers
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    They seemed to be numbered in descending order.  (source)
    descending = moving downward from larger to smaller numbers
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    And when you're a man who is variously described as dutiful, deferential, obsequious, slavish and brown-nosingly corrupt, in descending order of distinction, you need to make a show of character now and then.  (source)
    descending = moving downward on a scale from most to least distinct
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    For the office of the dead they adopt a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a depth.  (source)
    descend = move lower
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    The ballot itself was a long, narrow piece of paper with the parties listed in descending order to the left, and then the symbol of the party and a picture of its leader to the right.  (source)
    descending = from largest to smallest (probably from the party with the most members to the one with the least members)
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    Very slowly, "Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford," it said diminishingly and on a descending scale.  (source)
    descending = moving downward in lowness of pitch
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descend as in:  descend from royalty

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    I descended from Armenian immigrants.
    descended = came from (had as ancestors)
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    It is a tradition descending from an over-1000-year-old religious practice.
    descending = coming from (in the past)
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    She concludes that all mammalian species are likely descended from a common ancestor.
    descended = came from (evolved from)
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    Like every other animal on this planet, we're descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago.  (source)
    descended = evolved from
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    Some people believe that the Pashtuns descend from one of the lost tribes of Israel, and my father said, "It is as though we are the Israelites leaving Egypt, but we have no Moses to guide us."  (source)
    descend = come genetically
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    The tribal lineage descends from the father's side, the male ancestors.  (source)
    descends = comes (genetically)
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    It was at her soirees in this house that Anna mastered the ancient art of descending a staircase.  (source)
    descending = originating or coming from
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    Descended from the dinosaurs.  (source)
    Descended = evolved from
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    Well, they have a queen, like Attolia, so the throne can't descend only in the male line.  (source)
    descend = pass onward
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    The first great ancestor obtain'd his grace, And still his love descends on all the race  (source)
    descends = comes down through time
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    A third layer of nativeness was composed of those who others thought directly descended, even in the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa to this continent centuries ago as slaves.  (source)
    descended = come from (genetically)
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    The builders did not know the uses to which their work would descend;  (source)
    descend = originate or come from
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    They're an ancient line, descended from the First Men.  (source)
    descended = genetically
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descend as in:  descend into poverty

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    I will not descend to hurling insults in return.
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    The country descended into chaos.
    descended = move downward (figuratively) to a worse condition
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    She predicts the country will descend into anarchy.
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    Once again in his tormenter's clutches, Louie descended back into a state of profound stress.  (source)
    descended = moved (to a lower or less good condition)
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    Shawn said it was time to mount, and I climbed onto the barn roof, sure the corral would descend into violence.  (source)
    descend = figuratively, move downward to a worse situation
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    Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Can't describe the feeling itself except to say that I'm not me.  (source)
    Descending = moving to a worse situation
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    Having descended into proper madness, I begin to make the connections that crack open the long-dormant case of Russell Pickett's disappearance.  (source)
    descended = moved (to a lower or less good condition)
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    All approach as near to it as they can; some as they rise, others as they descend.  (source)
    descend = move downward (figuratively) to a worse or less prestigious situation
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    While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness to wretchedness, her native town had prospered.  (source)
    descending = moving to a worse situation
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    That night the electricity went out, cut off by the authorities, and Kensington and Chelsea descended into darkness.  (source)
    descended = transformed (to a lower or less good condition)
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    To see me now, Thomasin, gives you no idea of what I have been; of what depths I have descended to in these few last days.  (source)
    descended = moved to a lower or less good condition
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    Had this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed the inner horizon of his spirit?  (source)
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    The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart.  (source)
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descend as in:  descend into deeper thought

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    The problem became much clearer when my investigation descended into details.
    descended = moved from the more general to the more specific
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    Our conversation descended from philosophical goals to political maneuvering.
    descended = moved from more general to more specific
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    You're going to need to descend the abstraction ladder to explain that to me.
    descend = move from more general to more specific
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    Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was dazzled as he gazed upon it.  (source)
    descended = thought more deeply
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    Did he descend to any details?  (source)
    descend = move from the more general to the more specific
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    ... if, after having established the general principles of government, it descended to the details of public business;  (source)
    descended = moved from the more general to the more specific
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descend as in:  thieves descended upon us

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    A feeling of hopelessness descended upon us.
    descended = came
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    A seriousness descended on the crowd.
    descended = came suddenly
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    But really, I'm sure it was because she loved throwing a little end-of-the-year party for her bees, seeing them descend on the supers like they'd discovered honey heaven.  (source)
    descend = come
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    Armco representatives would descend on towns like Jackson and promise (truthfully) a better life for those willing to move north and work in the mills.  (source)
    descend = arrive suddenly
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    At last the term ended, and a silence deep as the snow on the grounds descended on the castle.  (source)
    descended = came or arrived
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    Walking back to the school grounds from the railroad station in the descending darkness we overtook a lone figure sliding along the snow-covered edge of the street.  (source)
    descending = arriving
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    The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear, but was dispelled when we heard a car turn in the driveway.  (source)
    descends = arrives
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    As I neared my cabin, I felt an unaccustomed tiredness descend on me like a cold drizzle.  (source)
    descend = come
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    A long silence descended over the room.  (source)
    descended = came
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    A few years ago, the Rajah would have taken the hint, for the Political Agent then had been a formidable figure, descending with all the thunders of Empire when it was most inconvenient, turning the polity inside out, requiring motor-cars and tiger-hunts, trees cut down that impeded the view from the Guest House, cows milked in his presence, and generally arrogating the control of internal affairs.  (source)
    descending = arriving
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    Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous billows of the invisible; he shouts.  (source)
    descends = arrives
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    A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed.  (source)
    descend = come
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    Everyone descended on the table in a chaotic flurry, knocking over glasses and sending forks onto the floor and picking up plates (which did not match, Phoebe pointed out to me) and saying, "That's my plate."  (source)
    descended = came suddenly
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