All 5 Uses
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- And so, its high command, facilities, colors, and shoulder insignia squared away, Camp Pendleton began molding the assault force that would descend upon that ugly, as-yet-nameless scab.
Chpt 5. *descend = attack
- —PRIVATE TEX STANTON, 2ND PLATOON, EASY COMPANY IT BEGAN EERILY, IN THE NIGHT: A dark Pacific sky cut by hellish red comets, rising and descending in clusters of three, each descent followed by a distant explosion.†
Chpt 7.
- As he observed Sergeant Watson descending, Colonel Johnson calculated he could risk a larger force and grabbed a field telephone.†
Chpt 11. *
- Easy Company, reunited with its patrol that descended Suribachi the night before, was ready to join the great offensive on the northern plateau.†
Chpt 13.
- Reporters descended on Manchester.†
Chpt 19.
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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(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
- (7) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)