All 3 Uses
descend
in
Turtles All the Way Down
(Edited)
- Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Can't describe the feeling itself except to say that I'm not me.
p. 211.7 *descending = moving to a worse situation
- Having descended into proper madness, I begin to make the connections that crack open the long-dormant case of Russell Pickett's disappearance.
p. 232.1descended = moved (to a lower or less good condition)
- Descended from the dinosaurs.
p. 269.3 *descended = evolved from
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)