All 4 Uses of
descend
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Perhaps on the gallery there is a low stone balustrade that supports, where steps descend into the garden, an electric-light standard with five branches and pear— shaped globes of a dim pearly lustre.†
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- I'm not meaning this in any reproachful way, but all the burden descended on my shoulders.†
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- I won't descend to the level of such cheap accusations to answer them, even!†
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- Eunice descends to Stella and places the child in her arms.†
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Definitions:
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(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward
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(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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(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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(descend as in: descend into poverty) figuratively, to move downward to a worse or less prestigious situation
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(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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(descend as in: thieves descended upon us) to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack