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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪˈsɛnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /dəˈsɛnd/ [General-American], /di-/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-descend.ogg [General-American] Forms: descends [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: PIE word *de The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)). The noun is derived from the verb. Etymology templates: {{l|ine-pro|*de}} *de, {{PIE word|en|de}} PIE word *de, {{root|en|ine-pro|*skend-}}, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{inh|en|enm|descenden|t=to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.}} Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), {{der|en|xno|descendere}} Anglo-Norman descendere, {{m|xno|descendre}} descendre, {{der|en|fro|descendere}} Old French descendere, {{m|fro|descendre|t=to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.}} descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), {{cog|fr|descendre}} French descendre, {{glossary|etymon}} etymon, {{der|en|la|dēscendere}} Latin dēscendere, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{m|la|dēscendō|t=to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.}} dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), {{glossary|prefix}} prefix, {{m|la|de-|pos=prefix meaning ‘from; down from’}} de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’), {{m|la|scandō|t=to ascend, climb; to clamber}} scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*skend-|t=to climb, scale; to dart; to jump}} Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”), {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-noun}} descend (plural descends)
  1. (archaic) Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”) Tags: archaic Synonyms: descent [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-descend-en-noun-4jg8tw-B

Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪˈsɛnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /dəˈsɛnd/ [General-American], /di-/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-descend.ogg [General-American] Forms: descends [present, singular, third-person], descending [participle, present], descended [participle, past], descended [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], descend [infinitive]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: PIE word *de The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)). The noun is derived from the verb. Etymology templates: {{l|ine-pro|*de}} *de, {{PIE word|en|de}} PIE word *de, {{root|en|ine-pro|*skend-}}, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{inh|en|enm|descenden|t=to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.}} Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), {{der|en|xno|descendere}} Anglo-Norman descendere, {{m|xno|descendre}} descendre, {{der|en|fro|descendere}} Old French descendere, {{m|fro|descendre|t=to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.}} descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), {{cog|fr|descendre}} French descendre, {{glossary|etymon}} etymon, {{der|en|la|dēscendere}} Latin dēscendere, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{m|la|dēscendō|t=to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.}} dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), {{glossary|prefix}} prefix, {{m|la|de-|pos=prefix meaning ‘from; down from’}} de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’), {{m|la|scandō|t=to ascend, climb; to clamber}} scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*skend-|t=to climb, scale; to dart; to jump}} Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”), {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-verb}} descend (third-person singular simple present descends, present participle descending, simple past and past participle descended) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1}}
  1. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.     Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-9WEZG~2O
  2. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).     Tags: transitive Translations (of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)): laskea (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-XdLHpXo~ Disambiguation of 'of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)': 10 53 1 2 2 2 2 2 7 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
  3. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (transitive, archaic) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.     Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (to move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position): laskea (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-jz1sU2dw Disambiguation of 'to move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position': 4 4 13 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1
  4. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
    (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.     Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Astrology Translations (of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance): laskea (Finnish), laskeutua (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-ORMM4cMD Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance': 2 1 2 31 16 4 4 4 1 1 4 2 2 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 3
  5. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
    (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.     Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations (of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south): laskeutua (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-NINiL0BO Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south': 2 1 2 14 34 4 3 3 1 1 4 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 3
  6. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
    (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.     Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Biology, Physiology Translations (of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum): laskeutua (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-S7aulPSg Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, physiology, sciences Disambiguation of 'of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum': 1 1 2 5 5 49 5 5 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2
  7. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
    (chemistry, obsolete) Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner.     Tags: intransitive, obsolete Categories (topical): Chemistry
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-6X1KprL2 Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  8. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.     Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-Fr01JAGw
  9. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.     Tags: intransitive Translations (to slope or stretch downwards): laskea (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb--pjPNCUq Disambiguation of 'to slope or stretch downwards': 4 6 1 4 4 4 4 4 48 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
  10. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.     Tags: historical, intransitive
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-YZQgaNY~
  11. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Translations (to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality): laskea (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-xFlHV1EF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 1 1 6 6 6 6 5 1 1 8 4 1 7 6 6 6 3 1 1 6 6 6 6 Disambiguation of 'to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality': 5 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 1 0 25 1 1 2 3 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 1
  12. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-gbGZiphs
  13. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Translations (in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered): mennä yksityiskohtiin (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-y7EvUk~A Disambiguation of 'in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered': 3 2 2 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 3 2 35 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4
  14. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Synonyms: degenerate
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-n6J2FSEw
  15. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Translations (to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground): нахвърлям се (nahvǎrljam se) (Bulgarian), налитам (nalitam) (Bulgarian), laskeutua (Finnish), напада́ть (napadátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), напа́сть (napástʹ) [perfective] (Russian), обру́шиваться (obrúšivatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), обру́шиться (obrúšitʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), saldırmak (Turkish), üşüşmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-8nhll~Nr Disambiguation of 'to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground': 3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4
  16. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Translations (to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience): langeta (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-l~QM45aW Disambiguation of 'to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience': 1 0 0 4 5 4 4 4 1 0 5 2 1 4 6 34 4 2 1 1 4 4 4 4
  17. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    (reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive, reflexive Translations (to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend): снижавам се (snižavam se) (Bulgarian), alentua (Finnish), laskeutua (Finnish), ísligh (Irish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-YxStHkBm Disambiguation of 'to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend': 1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 4 1 30 2 1 1 2 2 9 4
  18. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    (reflexive, chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive, poetic, reflexive Categories (topical): Religion Translations (to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought — see also retire): vajota (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-yqODhLqx Topics: lifestyle, religion Disambiguation of 'to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought — see also retire': 1 0 1 5 5 4 4 4 1 2 5 2 1 5 3 3 7 31 1 1 3 3 3 3
  19. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations (of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values): laskea (Finnish), pienetä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-A0DfR8I3 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values': 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 34 3 2 2 2 2
  20. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
    (intransitive, figurative)
    (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.     Tags: figuratively, intransitive Categories (topical): Music Translations (to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch): alentua (Finnish), laskea (Finnish), laskeutua (Finnish), pudota (Finnish), descendre (French)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-gXGYp3UI Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch': 5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1
  21. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
    (transitive, obsolete, rare) To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations.     Tags: obsolete, rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-n3a5xhPs
  22. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
    (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.     Tags: intransitive Translations (of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child): kulkea (Finnish), periytyä (Finnish), abstammen (German), síolaigh (Irish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-HIeigrVz Disambiguation of 'of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child': 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 2 2
  23. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
    (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.     Tags: intransitive Translations (to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem): предавам се по наследство (predavam se po nasledstvo) (Bulgarian), произлизам (proizlizam) (Bulgarian), afstammen (Dutch), periytyä (Finnish), polveutua (Finnish), ísligh (Irish), ondoode (Northwestern Ojibwa), descinde (Romanian), proveni (Romanian), происходи́ть (proisxodítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), произойти́ (proizojtí) [perfective] (Russian), по̀тјецати [Bosnia, Croatia, Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), по̀тицати [Cyrillic, Serbia, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), pòtjecati [Bosnia, Croatia, Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), pòticati [Roman, Serbia, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), descender (Spanish), soyundan gelmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-wjMYcCfY Disambiguation of 'to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem': 1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3
  24. Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
    (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.     Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Law Translations (of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance): periytyä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-descend-en-verb-vVS6gqU5 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance': 2 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 1 0 4 4 1 3 2 2 7 1 1 1 5 5 5 39
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Related terms: ascend, condescend, descendant, descent, scan, scandent, transcend Translations (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)): laskea (english: to descend a river) (Finnish), laskeutua (Finnish), descendre (French), descender (Spanish), inmek (Turkish) Translations (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position): afgaan (Afrikaans), καταβαίνω (katabaínō) (Ancient Greek), نَزَلَ (nazala) (Arabic), نزل (nizil) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), هبط (hbaṭ) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), نزل (nzal) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), իջնել (iǰnel) (Armenian), dipun (Aromanian), versu (Aromanian), çökmək (Azerbaijani), enmək (Azerbaijani), tuun (Balinese), төшөү (töşöw) (Bashkir), спуска́цца (spuskácca) [imperfective] (Belarusian), спусці́цца (spuscícca) [perfective] (Belarusian), слизам (slizam) (Bulgarian), спускам се (spuskam se) (Bulgarian), ဆင်း (hcang:) (Burmese), descendir (Catalan), akkowa (Chickasaw), 降 (Chinese Mandarin), 下 (xià) (Chinese Mandarin), 下降 (xiàjiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), sestoupit (Czech), afdalen (Dutch), neerdalen (Dutch), h-A-D54 (hꜣj) (Egyptian), profundiĝi (Esperanto), alanduma (Estonian), langema (Estonian), laskuma (Estonian), madalduma (Estonian), laskeutua (Finnish), descendre (French), dismontâ (Friulian), absteigen (German), herabsteigen (German), herunterkommen (German), niedergehen (German), κατεβαίνω (katevaíno) (Greek), יָרַד (yarád) (Hebrew), उतरना (utarnā) (Hindi), lemegy (Hungarian), decensar (Ido), turun (Indonesian), ísligh (Irish), discendere (Italian), scendere (Italian), 降下する (kōkasuru) (alt: こうかする) (Japanese), 降りる (oriru) (alt: おりる) (Japanese), mudhun (Javanese), ចុះ (coh) (Khmer), kita (Kituba), kukita (Kituba), 내리다 (naerida) (Korean), 내려오다 (naeryeooda) (english: come down) (Korean), 내려가다 (naeryeogada) (english: go down) (Korean), ລົງ (long) (Lao), descendō (Latin), kita (Lingala), andà giò (Lombard), turun (Malay), niżel (Maltese), ushuka (Maore Comorian), makere (Maori), marere (Maori), d'scendre (Norman), descénder (Occitan), descendre (Occitan), davalar (Occitan), bu'uu (Oromo), schodzić [imperfective] (Polish), zejść [perfective] (Polish), zniżać się [imperfective] (Polish), zniżyć się [perfective] (Polish), descender (Portuguese), baixar (Portuguese), descer (Portuguese), bahay (Quechua), uray (Quechua), coborî (Romanian), спуска́ться (spuskátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), спусти́ться (spustítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), сходи́ть (sxodítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сойти́ (sojtí) [perfective] (Russian), сѝлазити [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), си̑ћи [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), спу́штати се [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), спу̀стити се [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), sìlaziti [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), sȋći [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), spúštati se [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), spùstiti se [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dirra (Sidamo), descender (Spanish), bajar (Spanish), kushuka (Swahili), bumaba (Tagalog), இறங்கு (iṟaṅku) (Tamil), tun (Tetum), ลง (long) (Thai), kārp- (Tocharian B), alçalmak (Turkish), inmek (Turkish), 𐎊𐎗𐎄 (yrd) (Ugaritic), спуска́тися (spuskátysja) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), спусти́тися (spustýtysja) [perfective] (Ukrainian), xuống (Vietnamese), dischinde (Walloon), adschinde (Walloon), disgyn (Welsh), ԝесак (Yagnobi), אַראָפּגיין (aropgeyn) (Yiddish)
Derived forms: descendable, descendible, descendance, descendancy, descended [adjective], descender, descending [adjective, noun], descend on, descend upon, maldescended, redescend, undescended Disambiguation of 'to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)': 7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2 Disambiguation of 'to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position': 3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1

Verb [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-descend.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-descend.wav [Canada]
Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} descend
  1. third-person singular present indicative of descendre Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: descendre
    Sense id: en-descend-fr-verb-glwexgfx Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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        [
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
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      ],
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      ],
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        }
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        }
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance."
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          "falling",
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        ],
        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
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        [
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        [
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          "astrological"
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        [
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          "significance"
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance."
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      ],
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        "human-sciences",
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        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 2 31 16 4 4 4 1 1 4 2 2 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 2 31 16 4 4 4 1 1 4 2 2 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance",
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        }
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        {
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        }
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            "Nature",
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1836 (date written), James Hogg, Flodden Field; republished in Robert Murray, “James Hogg”, in Hawick Songs and Song Writers, 3rd edition, Hawick, Roxburghshire: W. & J. Kennedy, 1897, →OCLC, page 31",
          "text": "Sol, with broaden'd orb, descending, / Left fierce warriors still contending, / Brilliant Vesper shed her glances, / Ere they sheathed their blood-stained lances.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south."
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          "go",
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        [
          "way",
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        ],
        [
          "climbing",
          "climb#Verb"
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        [
          "falling",
          "fall#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
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        [
          "downwards",
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        [
          "sink",
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        ],
        [
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          "south",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 2 14 34 4 3 3 1 1 4 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south",
          "word": "laskeutua"
        }
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        {
          "word": "rise"
        }
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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        {
          "text": "Cryptorchidism is the failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-S7aulPSg",
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        [
          "come",
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        ],
        [
          "go",
          "go#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "climbing",
          "climb#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "falling",
          "fall#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "downwards",
          "downwards"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
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        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ],
        [
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          "body part"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ],
        [
          "embryo",
          "embryo"
        ],
        [
          "testes",
          "testis"
        ],
        [
          "mammal",
          "mammal"
        ],
        [
          "abdominal cavity",
          "abdominal cavity"
        ],
        [
          "scrotum",
          "scrotum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
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        "natural-sciences",
        "physiology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 2 5 5 49 5 5 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum",
          "word": "laskeutua"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ascend"
        },
        {
          "word": "climb"
        },
        {
          "word": "go up"
        },
        {
          "word": "rise"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chemistry",
          "orig": "en:Chemistry",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-6X1KprL2",
      "links": [
        [
          "physically",
          "physically"
        ],
        [
          "come",
          "come#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "go",
          "go#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "climbing",
          "climb#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "falling",
          "fall#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "downwards",
          "downwards"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "chemistry",
          "chemistry"
        ],
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "distil",
          "distil"
        ],
        [
          "gather",
          "gather#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "bottom",
          "bottom#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ],
        [
          "manner",
          "manner#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(chemistry, obsolete) Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ascend"
        },
        {
          "word": "climb"
        },
        {
          "word": "go up"
        },
        {
          "word": "rise"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1528 September 24 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] S[herren] Brewer, compiler, “[A Commission of Sewers for the Marches of Calais, […] Dated Hampton Court, 14 Sept. 20 Hen. VIII.]”, in Letters and papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. […], volume IV, part II, London: Longman & Co., and Trübner & Co., […], published 1872, →OCLC, paragraph 5102 (Calais), page 2232",
          "text": "And there is another watergang, called Haile Fayers watergang, 4 miles long and 16 feet broad, which descendeth by a spoye of stone at Hofkirk bridge into the said great river, which must always be cast at the tenants' cost.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1862 (date written), Arthur Hugh Clough, “[Untitled poem]”, in Poems: With a Memoir, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: Macmillan and Co. […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "O stream descending to the sea, / Thy mossy banks between, / The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow, / The leafy trees are green. // In garden plots the children play, / The fields the labourers till, / And houses stand on either hand, / And thou descendest still.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Edward William Lane, transl., The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. […], volume III, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], →OCLC, page 453",
          "text": "And they accosted the sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh and said to him, O our sheykh, Bahrám practised a strategem to effect his ascent to the top of the mountain, and how did he descend, and what wonders did he see upon the mountain? The sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh therefore said, O Ḥasan, tell them how thou descendedst, and acquaint them with the wonders that thou sawest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1844, Alexander Watson, “Whit Sunday. [A Prayer for Whitsuntide.]”, in The Churchman’s Sunday Evenings at Home, volume II, London: W. J. Cleaver, […]; Rugeley, Staffordshire: J. T. Walters, →OCLC, page 163",
          "text": "Let that mighty rushing wind, in which aforetime Thou descendedst, purge away the chaff of our carnal affections, and with a holy violence beat down our strongholds of sin, and all the proud imaginations that resist Thy grace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 May, John Griesemer, chapter 20, in No One Thinks of Greenland, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 187",
          "text": "Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-Fr01JAGw",
      "links": [
        [
          "physically",
          "physically"
        ],
        [
          "come",
          "come#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "go",
          "go#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "climbing",
          "climb#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "falling",
          "fall#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "downwards",
          "downwards"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To slope or stretch downwards."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb--pjPNCUq",
      "links": [
        [
          "slope",
          "slope#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 1 4 4 4 4 4 48 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to slope or stretch downwards",
          "word": "laskea"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-YZQgaNY~",
      "links": [
        [
          "alight",
          "alight#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "disembark",
          "disembark"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 1 1 1 6 6 6 6 5 1 1 8 4 1 7 6 6 6 3 1 1 6 6 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-xFlHV1EF",
      "links": [
        [
          "reduce",
          "reduce"
        ],
        [
          "intensity",
          "intensity"
        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 1 0 25 1 1 2 3 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality",
          "word": "laskea"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, [Joseph Converse Heywood], Salome, the Daughter of Herodias. A Dramatic Poem, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, […], →OCLC, pages 244–245",
          "text": "Death spreadeth darkly above thee, / Descendeth, descendeth upon thee, / Suffocating! suffocating! ah!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-gbGZiphs",
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "cloud",
          "cloud#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "storm",
          "storm#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "negative",
          "negative#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "immaterial",
          "immaterial#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "darkness",
          "darkness"
        ],
        [
          "gloom",
          "gloom#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "silence",
          "silence#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "settle",
          "settle#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "start",
          "start#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "affect",
          "affect#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-y7EvUk~A",
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "writing",
          "writing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "proceed",
          "proceed"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "specific",
          "specific#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 2 2 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 3 2 35 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered",
          "word": "mennä yksityiskohtiin"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The meeting descended into chaos.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-n6J2FSEw",
      "links": [
        [
          "into",
          "into"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "worse",
          "worse#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "decline",
          "decline#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "deteriorate",
          "deteriorate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "degenerate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893 April, Hanns Oertel, “Article IV. The Jāiminīya or Talavakāra Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa: Text, Translation, and Notes”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume XVI, New Haven, Conn.: […] Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers to Yale University for the American Oriental Society, published 1896, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 201",
          "text": "When moving down against [him] thou descendest against the sleeping man unknowing, let Varuṇa cover me with a golden armor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alfred Grossmith Mason, Julie Grossmith Deltrice, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Books",
          "text": "[T]he low growl of engines coming from high above the cloud cover, alerts us to the fact that there are many more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-8nhll~Nr",
      "links": [
        [
          "on",
          "on#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "upon",
          "upon"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "incursion",
          "incursion"
        ],
        [
          "vantage",
          "vantage#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "violence",
          "violence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nahvǎrljam se",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "word": "нахвърлям се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nalitam",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "word": "налитам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "word": "laskeutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "napadátʹ",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "напада́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "napástʹ",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "напа́сть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obrúšivatʹsja",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "обру́шиваться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obrúšitʹsja",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "обру́шиться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "word": "saldırmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 22 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
          "word": "üşüşmek"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My neighbour descended upon me just as I was walking out the door.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-l~QM45aW",
      "links": [
        [
          "arrive",
          "arrive"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "unexpectedly",
          "unexpectedly"
        ],
        [
          "causes",
          "cause#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "disruption",
          "disruption"
        ],
        [
          "inconvenience",
          "inconvenience#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 0 4 5 4 4 4 1 0 5 2 1 4 6 34 4 2 1 1 4 4 4 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience",
          "word": "langeta"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He descended from his high estate.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-YxStHkBm",
      "links": [
        [
          "come down",
          "come down"
        ],
        [
          "humbler",
          "humble#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "virtuous",
          "virtuous"
        ],
        [
          "rank",
          "rank#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "abase",
          "abase"
        ],
        [
          "lower",
          "lower#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "condescend",
          "condescend"
        ],
        [
          "stoop",
          "stoop#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive",
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 4 1 30 2 1 1 2 2 9 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "snižavam se",
          "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
          "word": "снижавам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 4 1 30 2 1 1 2 2 9 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
          "word": "alentua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 4 1 30 2 1 1 2 2 9 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
          "word": "laskeutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 8 1 1 3 4 1 30 2 1 1 2 2 9 4",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
          "word": "ísligh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Religion",
          "orig": "en:Religion",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-yqODhLqx",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
        [
          "within",
          "within#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "mentally",
          "mentally"
        ],
        [
          "enter",
          "enter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "deep",
          "deep#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "meditation",
          "meditation"
        ],
        [
          "thought",
          "thought#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "retire",
          "retire#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(reflexive, chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive",
        "poetic",
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 1 5 5 4 4 4 1 2 5 2 1 5 3 3 7 31 1 1 3 3 3 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought — see also retire",
          "word": "vajota"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "en:Mathematics",
          "parents": [
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-A0DfR8I3",
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "series",
          "series"
        ],
        [
          "values",
          "value#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 34 3 2 2 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values",
          "word": "laskea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 34 3 2 2 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values",
          "word": "pienetä"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-gXGYp3UI",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "tone",
          "tone#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
          "word": "alentua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
          "word": "laskea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
          "word": "laskeutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
          "word": "pudota"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 27 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
          "word": "descendre"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-n3a5xhPs",
      "links": [
        [
          "trace",
          "trace#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "lineage",
          "lineage"
        ],
        [
          "earlier",
          "early#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "later",
          "late#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(transitive, obsolete, rare) To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-HIeigrVz",
      "links": [
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transmit",
          "transmit"
        ],
        [
          "parent",
          "parent#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
          "word": "abstammen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
          "word": "kulkea"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 2 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
          "word": "periytyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 2 2",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
          "word": "síolaigh"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The beggar may descend from a prince.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-wjMYcCfY",
      "links": [
        [
          "from",
          "from"
        ],
        [
          "of",
          "of#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "derive",
          "derive"
        ],
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "ancestral",
          "ancestral"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "source",
          "source#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "originate",
          "originate"
        ],
        [
          "stem",
          "stem#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "often passive voice",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "predavam se po nasledstvo",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "предавам се по наследство"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "proizlizam",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "произлизам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "afstammen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "periytyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "polveutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "ísligh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ojb",
          "lang": "Northwestern Ojibwa",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "ondoode"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "descinde"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "proveni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "proisxodítʹ",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "происходи́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "proizojtí",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "произойти́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "Bosnia",
            "Croatia",
            "Cyrillic",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "по̀тјецати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "Serbia",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "по̀тицати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "Bosnia",
            "Croatia",
            "Roman",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "pòtjecati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "Serbia",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "pòticati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "descender"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 9 1 1 2 5 1 11 1 1 1 3 3 17 3",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
          "word": "soyundan gelmek"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The crown descends to the heir of the previous monarch.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, J[ames] G[eorge] Frazer, “The Fire-drill”, in The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 3rd edition, part I (The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, volume II), London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 217",
          "text": "The possession of the sacred fire and of the ancestral sticks, carrying with it both political authority and priestly dignity, descends in the male line, and hence generally passes from father to son.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance."
      ],
      "id": "en-descend-en-verb-vVS6gqU5",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "right",
          "right#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pass down",
          "pass down"
        ],
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ],
        [
          "inheritance",
          "inheritance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 1 0 4 4 1 3 2 2 7 1 1 1 5 5 5 39",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance",
          "word": "periytyä"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈsɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈsɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/di-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-descend.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg/En-us-descend.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2",
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "to descend a river",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "7 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 2 2 2 2",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "inmek"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "afgaan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nazala",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "نَزَلَ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nizil",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "نزل"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hbaṭ",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "هبط"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nzal",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "نزل"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "iǰnel",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "իջնել"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dipun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "versu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "çökmək"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "enmək"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ban",
      "lang": "Balinese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "tuun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "töşöw",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "төшөү"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "spuskácca",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спуска́цца"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "spuscícca",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусці́цца"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "slizam",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "слизам"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "spuskam se",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "спускам се"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "hcang:",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ဆင်း"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cic",
      "lang": "Chickasaw",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "akkowa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xià",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "下"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiàjiàng",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "下降"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "sestoupit"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "afdalen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "neerdalen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "roman": "hꜣj",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "h-A-D54"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "profundiĝi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "alanduma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "langema"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "laskuma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "madalduma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dismontâ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "absteigen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "herabsteigen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "herunterkommen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "niedergehen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katevaíno",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "κατεβαίνω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "katabaínō",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "καταβαίνω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "yarád",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "יָרַד"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "utarnā",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "उतरना"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "lemegy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "decensar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "turun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ísligh"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "discendere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "scendere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "alt": "こうかする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōkasuru",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降下する"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "alt": "おりる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "oriru",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降りる"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "mudhun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "coh",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ចុះ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ktu",
      "lang": "Kituba",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ktu",
      "lang": "Kituba",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kukita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naerida",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내리다"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "come down",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naeryeooda",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내려오다"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "go down",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naeryeogada",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내려가다"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "long",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ລົງ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "andà giò"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "turun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "niżel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "swb",
      "lang": "Maore Comorian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ushuka"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "makere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "marere"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "d'scendre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descénder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "davalar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "om",
      "lang": "Oromo",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bu'uu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "schodzić"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zejść"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zniżać się"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zniżyć się"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "baixar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bahay"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "uray"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "coborî"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spuskátʹsja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спуска́ться"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spustítʹsja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусти́ться"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sxodítʹ",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сходи́ть"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sojtí",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сойти́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "сѝлазити"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
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      "word": "си̑ћи"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "спу́штати се"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "спу̀стити се"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "sìlaziti"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sȋći"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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      "tags": [
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    {
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
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      "word": "spùstiti se"
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      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "tl",
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      "word": "bumaba"
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "iṟaṅku",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "இறங்கு"
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      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "tet",
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      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "tun"
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "long",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ลง"
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kārp-"
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    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "alçalmak"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "inmek"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "yrd",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "𐎊𐎗𐎄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spuskátysja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "спуска́тися"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "spustýtysja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "xuống"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dischinde"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
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      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "disgyn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "yai",
      "lang": "Yagnobi",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ԝесак"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 3 4 11 11 11 11 11 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1",
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "aropgeyn",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "אַראָפּגיין"
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      "word": "descendible"
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      "word": "descendance"
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      "word": "descendancy"
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      "word": "descend upon"
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    {
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      },
      "expansion": "dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”)",
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        "2": "ine-pro",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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        "present"
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    },
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  "hyphenation": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    },
    {
      "word": "condescend"
    },
    {
      "word": "descendant"
    },
    {
      "word": "descent"
    },
    {
      "word": "scan"
    },
    {
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    {
      "word": "transcend"
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon."
      ],
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        ],
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          "lower",
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        [
          "part",
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        ],
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
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          "text": "They took the steep path that descends the hill down to the beach.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "lead",
          "lead#Verb"
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        [
          "down",
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        [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down."
      ],
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        [
          "place",
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        ],
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          "position",
          "position#Noun"
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        [
          "bring",
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        [
          "send",
          "send#Verb"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(transitive, archaic) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
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          "word": "ascend"
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          "word": "climb"
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          "word": "go up"
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        {
          "word": "rise"
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance."
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      "links": [
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          "come",
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        [
          "go",
          "go#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way#Noun"
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          "climbing",
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        ],
        [
          "falling",
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        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
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          "word": "ascend"
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        {
          "word": "climb"
        },
        {
          "word": "go up"
        },
        {
          "word": "rise"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1836 (date written), James Hogg, Flodden Field; republished in Robert Murray, “James Hogg”, in Hawick Songs and Song Writers, 3rd edition, Hawick, Roxburghshire: W. & J. Kennedy, 1897, →OCLC, page 31",
          "text": "Sol, with broaden'd orb, descending, / Left fierce warriors still contending, / Brilliant Vesper shed her glances, / Ere they sheathed their blood-stained lances.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south."
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          "come",
          "come#Verb"
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        [
          "go",
          "go#Verb"
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          "way",
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          "climbing",
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        ],
        [
          "falling",
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        ],
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          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
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          "walking",
          "walk#Verb"
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          "downwards",
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south."
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      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
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        "astronomy",
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          "word": "ascend"
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          "word": "climb"
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        {
          "word": "go up"
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        {
          "word": "rise"
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
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        "en:Physiology"
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        {
          "text": "Cryptorchidism is the failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.",
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum."
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          "go",
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          "way",
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        ],
        [
          "falling",
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        [
          "flowing",
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          "walking",
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum."
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        {
          "word": "go up"
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        {
          "word": "rise"
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Chemistry"
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner."
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          "way",
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        ],
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          "climbing",
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        [
          "falling",
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        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
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        [
          "walking",
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          "downwards",
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        [
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          "distil",
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          "gather",
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          "bottom",
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        [
          "container",
          "container"
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        [
          "manner",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.",
        "(chemistry, obsolete) Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
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      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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    {
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        {
          "word": "ascend"
        },
        {
          "word": "climb"
        },
        {
          "word": "go up"
        },
        {
          "word": "rise"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1528 September 24 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] S[herren] Brewer, compiler, “[A Commission of Sewers for the Marches of Calais, […] Dated Hampton Court, 14 Sept. 20 Hen. VIII.]”, in Letters and papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. […], volume IV, part II, London: Longman & Co., and Trübner & Co., […], published 1872, →OCLC, paragraph 5102 (Calais), page 2232",
          "text": "And there is another watergang, called Haile Fayers watergang, 4 miles long and 16 feet broad, which descendeth by a spoye of stone at Hofkirk bridge into the said great river, which must always be cast at the tenants' cost.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1862 (date written), Arthur Hugh Clough, “[Untitled poem]”, in Poems: With a Memoir, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: Macmillan and Co. […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 76",
          "text": "O stream descending to the sea, / Thy mossy banks between, / The flow'rets blow, the grasses grow, / The leafy trees are green. // In garden plots the children play, / The fields the labourers till, / And houses stand on either hand, / And thou descendest still.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Edward William Lane, transl., The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. […], volume III, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], →OCLC, page 453",
          "text": "And they accosted the sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh and said to him, O our sheykh, Bahrám practised a strategem to effect his ascent to the top of the mountain, and how did he descend, and what wonders did he see upon the mountain? The sheykh Abu-r-Ruweysh therefore said, O Ḥasan, tell them how thou descendedst, and acquaint them with the wonders that thou sawest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1844, Alexander Watson, “Whit Sunday. [A Prayer for Whitsuntide.]”, in The Churchman’s Sunday Evenings at Home, volume II, London: W. J. Cleaver, […]; Rugeley, Staffordshire: J. T. Walters, →OCLC, page 163",
          "text": "Let that mighty rushing wind, in which aforetime Thou descendedst, purge away the chaff of our carnal affections, and with a holy violence beat down our strongholds of sin, and all the proud imaginations that resist Thy grace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 May, John Griesemer, chapter 20, in No One Thinks of Greenland, New York, N.Y.: Picador, page 187",
          "text": "Rudy felt a gust of fear rise in his chest, and he looked again in the mirror, but the hangar and stable were now beyond the rise, out of sight, he was descending so fast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink."
      ],
      "links": [
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        [
          "go",
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        [
          "way",
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        [
          "climbing",
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        [
          "falling",
          "fall#Verb"
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        [
          "flowing",
          "flow#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "walking",
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          "downwards",
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        [
          "sink",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To slope or stretch downwards."
      ],
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        [
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        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alight",
          "alight#Verb"
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        [
          "carriage",
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          "horse",
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        [
          "disembark",
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        [
          "vessel",
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        [
          "land",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality."
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, [Joseph Converse Heywood], Salome, the Daughter of Herodias. A Dramatic Poem, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, […], →OCLC, pages 244–245",
          "text": "Death spreadeth darkly above thee, / Descendeth, descendeth upon thee, / Suffocating! suffocating! ah!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "cloud",
          "cloud#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "storm",
          "storm#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "negative",
          "negative#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "immaterial",
          "immaterial#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "darkness",
          "darkness"
        ],
        [
          "gloom",
          "gloom#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "silence",
          "silence#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "settle",
          "settle#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "start",
          "start#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "affect",
          "affect#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speech",
          "speech#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "writing",
          "writing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "proceed",
          "proceed"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ],
        [
          "specific",
          "specific#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "consider",
          "consider"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The meeting descended into chaos.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "into",
          "into"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "become",
          "become"
        ],
        [
          "worse",
          "worse#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "decline",
          "decline#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "deteriorate",
          "deteriorate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "degenerate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893 April, Hanns Oertel, “Article IV. The Jāiminīya or Talavakāra Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa: Text, Translation, and Notes”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume XVI, New Haven, Conn.: […] Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers to Yale University for the American Oriental Society, published 1896, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 201",
          "text": "When moving down against [him] thou descendest against the sleeping man unknowing, let Varuṇa cover me with a golden armor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alfred Grossmith Mason, Julie Grossmith Deltrice, Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Books",
          "text": "[T]he low growl of engines coming from high above the cloud cover, alerts us to the fact that there are many more aircraft descending on us than had done during previous visits from the snoopers in their usual ones and twos.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "on",
          "on#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "upon",
          "upon"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "incursion",
          "incursion"
        ],
        [
          "vantage",
          "vantage#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "violence",
          "violence#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My neighbour descended upon me just as I was walking out the door.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "arrive",
          "arrive"
        ],
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ],
        [
          "unexpectedly",
          "unexpectedly"
        ],
        [
          "causes",
          "cause#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "disruption",
          "disruption"
        ],
        [
          "inconvenience",
          "inconvenience#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English reflexive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He descended from his high estate.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come down",
          "come down"
        ],
        [
          "humbler",
          "humble#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "virtuous",
          "virtuous"
        ],
        [
          "rank",
          "rank#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "abase",
          "abase"
        ],
        [
          "lower",
          "lower#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "condescend",
          "condescend"
        ],
        [
          "stoop",
          "stoop#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive",
        "reflexive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English reflexive verbs",
        "en:Religion"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
        [
          "within",
          "within#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "mentally",
          "mentally"
        ],
        [
          "enter",
          "enter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "deep",
          "deep#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "meditation",
          "meditation"
        ],
        [
          "thought",
          "thought#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "retire",
          "retire#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(reflexive, chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive",
        "poetic",
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Mathematics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "series",
          "series"
        ],
        [
          "values",
          "value#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "tone",
          "tone#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.",
        "(intransitive, figurative)",
        "(music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trace",
          "trace#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "lineage",
          "lineage"
        ],
        [
          "earlier",
          "early#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "later",
          "late#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(transitive, obsolete, rare) To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transmit",
          "transmit"
        ],
        [
          "parent",
          "parent#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The beggar may descend from a prince.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "from",
          "from"
        ],
        [
          "of",
          "of#Preposition"
        ],
        [
          "derive",
          "derive"
        ],
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "ancestral",
          "ancestral"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "source",
          "source#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "originate",
          "originate"
        ],
        [
          "stem",
          "stem#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "often passive voice",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The crown descends to the heir of the previous monarch.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, J[ames] G[eorge] Frazer, “The Fire-drill”, in The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 3rd edition, part I (The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, volume II), London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 217",
          "text": "The possession of the sacred fire and of the ancestral sticks, carrying with it both political authority and priestly dignity, descends in the male line, and hence generally passes from father to son.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "property",
          "property"
        ],
        [
          "right",
          "right#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "pass down",
          "pass down"
        ],
        [
          "generation",
          "generation"
        ],
        [
          "inheritance",
          "inheritance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.",
        "(intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈsɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈsɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/di-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-descend.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg/En-us-descend.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-us-descend.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "to descend a river",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something)",
      "word": "inmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.)",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "afgaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nazala",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "نَزَلَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nizil",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "نزل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hbaṭ",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "هبط"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nzal",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "نزل"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "iǰnel",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "իջնել"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dipun"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "versu"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "çökmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "enmək"
    },
    {
      "code": "ban",
      "lang": "Balinese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "tuun"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "töşöw",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "төшөү"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "spuskácca",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спуска́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "spuscícca",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусці́цца"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "slizam",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "слизам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "spuskam se",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "спускам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "hcang:",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ဆင်း"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendir"
    },
    {
      "code": "cic",
      "lang": "Chickasaw",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "akkowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xià",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "下"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiàjiàng",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "下降"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "sestoupit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "afdalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "neerdalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "roman": "hꜣj",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "h-A-D54"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "profundiĝi"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "alanduma"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "langema"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "laskuma"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "madalduma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dismontâ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "absteigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "herabsteigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "herunterkommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "niedergehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katevaíno",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "κατεβαίνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "katabaínō",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "καταβαίνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "yarád",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "יָרַד"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "utarnā",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "उतरना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "lemegy"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "decensar"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "turun"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ísligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "discendere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "scendere"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうかする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōkasuru",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降下する"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おりる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "oriru",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "降りる"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "mudhun"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "coh",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ចុះ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ktu",
      "lang": "Kituba",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ktu",
      "lang": "Kituba",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kukita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naerida",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내리다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "come down",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naeryeooda",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내려오다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "go down",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naeryeogada",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "내려가다"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "long",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ລົງ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kita"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "andà giò"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "turun"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "niżel"
    },
    {
      "code": "swb",
      "lang": "Maore Comorian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ushuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "makere"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "marere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "d'scendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descénder"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "davalar"
    },
    {
      "code": "om",
      "lang": "Oromo",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bu'uu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "schodzić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zejść"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zniżać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zniżyć się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "baixar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descer"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bahay"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "uray"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "coborî"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spuskátʹsja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спуска́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spustítʹsja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусти́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sxodítʹ",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сходи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sojtí",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сойти́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сѝлазити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "си̑ћи"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спу́штати се"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спу̀стити се"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "sìlaziti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "sȋći"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "spúštati se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "spùstiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sid",
      "lang": "Sidamo",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dirra"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bajar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kushuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "bumaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "iṟaṅku",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "இறங்கு"
    },
    {
      "code": "tet",
      "lang": "Tetum",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "tun"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "long",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ลง"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "kārp-"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "alçalmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "inmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "yrd",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "𐎊𐎗𐎄"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spuskátysja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "спуска́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spustýtysja",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "спусти́тися"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "xuống"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "dischinde"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "adschinde"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "disgyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "yai",
      "lang": "Yagnobi",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "ԝесак"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "aropgeyn",
      "sense": "to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position",
      "word": "אַראָפּגיין"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to move towards the south",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to slope or stretch downwards",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered",
      "word": "mennä yksityiskohtiin"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nahvǎrljam se",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "word": "нахвърлям се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nalitam",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "word": "налитам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napadátʹ",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "напада́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napástʹ",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "напа́сть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obrúšivatʹsja",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обру́шиваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obrúšitʹsja",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "обру́шиться"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "word": "saldırmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground",
      "word": "üşüşmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience",
      "word": "langeta"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "snižavam se",
      "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
      "word": "снижавам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
      "word": "alentua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state — see also abase, condescend",
      "word": "ísligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought — see also retire",
      "word": "vajota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values",
      "word": "pienetä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
      "word": "alentua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
      "word": "laskea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
      "word": "laskeutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
      "word": "pudota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch",
      "word": "descendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
      "word": "abstammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
      "word": "kulkea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
      "word": "periytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child",
      "word": "síolaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predavam se po nasledstvo",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "предавам се по наследство"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "proizlizam",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "произлизам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "afstammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "periytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "polveutua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "ísligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ojb",
      "lang": "Northwestern Ojibwa",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "ondoode"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "descinde"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "proveni"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proisxodítʹ",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "происходи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "proizojtí",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "произойти́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "Bosnia",
        "Croatia",
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "по̀тјецати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Serbia",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "по̀тицати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "Bosnia",
        "Croatia",
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "pòtjecati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "Serbia",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "pòticati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "descender"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source — see also originate, stem",
      "word": "soyundan gelmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance",
      "word": "periytyä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "descend"
}

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    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skend-",
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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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      },
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    {
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      "args": {
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    },
    {
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      },
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/dəˈsɛnd/",
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        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/di-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
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}

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        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French non-lemma forms",
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        "French verb forms"
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        "third-person singular present indicative of descendre"
      ],
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