All 4 Uses
descend
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Dubliners
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- THE grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets.
Chpt 6 *descended = come
- She moved her hand about here and there in the air and descended on one of the saucers.
Chpt 10 *descended = moved downward
- The tirade continued: it was so bitter and violent that the man could hardly restrain his fist from descending upon the head of the manikin before him: "I know nothing about any other two letters," he said stupidly.†
Chpt 9
- A dull, yellow light brooded over the houses and the river; and the sky seemed to be descending.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward
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(2)
(descend as in: in descending order) move down a scale -- as from larger numbers to smaller, or higher notes to lower
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(3)
(descend as in: descend from royalty) figuratively, to have come down a path from the past; i.e., to originate or come from -- such as in reference to ancestors or evolutionary origins
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(4)
(descend as in: descend into poverty) figuratively, to move downward to a worse or less prestigious situation
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(5)
(descend as in: descend into deeper thought) to move from a higher level of abstraction downward to a lower one (from more general to more specific); or to move from superficial to deeper thought
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(6)
(descend as in: thieves descended upon us) to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack
- (7) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)