All 14 Uses
descend
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Uglies
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- She bent her knees, and her board started to descend.
p. 70.4 *descend = move downward
- She was laughing as she descended to the grass, dangling by her bracelets.†
p. 35.2
- The handholds in its branches felt solid and familiar, and she descended quickly into the darkness behind a recycler.†
p. 52.1
- Looking down at the black, empty doorways, Tally's skin crawled with the thought of descending to peer into one.†
p. 59.5
- The almost full moon was descending in the sky, so it had to be past midnight, Tally remembered from astronomy.†
p. 68.9
- The hovercar descended onto one of the red Xs on the hospital roof, and Tally's driver escorted her inside, taking her to a waiting room.†
p. 97.1
- Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass.†
p. 100.1
- The board finally halted in its slide out into midair, but Tally was still descending.†
p. 144.5
- It slipped down the cliffside, descending faster as it left the metal of the track behind.†
p. 153.1
- The board slowed for a second, trying to climb, but then shivered and continued to descend.†
p. 153.4
- She descended the slope at full tilt.†
p. 166.5
- They descended the ridge on the far side, down a steep, narrow path.†
p. 240.1
- You've got to remember, we're mostly descended from Rusties, and we're still using their basic technology.†
p. 326.1
- On this journey, there were none of Shay's cryptic clues to puzzle through, no brush fires to escape, and no antique Rusty machines descending to scare her to death.†
p. 331.9
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)