All 3 Uses
descend
in
Kit's Wilderness
(Auto-generated)
- He descended through the dark with her.
p. 50.7 *descended = moved downward
- He entered the great cave into which all the dead descend, the cave where no fire burns, where no sun lights the entrance.†
p. 50.8
- That day he began to see people in furs on the ice below him, and he descended with his courage toward them.†
p. 50.9
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)