descend

verb

1. 1

   To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

   “The rain descended, and the floods came.”

2. 2

   To enter mentally; to retire.

3. 3

   (with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

   “And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.”

4. 4

   To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

   “he descended from his high estate”

5. 5

   To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.

6. 6

   To come down, as from a source, original, or stock

7. 7

   To be derived (from)

8. 8

   To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

   “A crown descends to the heir.”

9. 9

   To move toward the south, or to the southward.

10. 10

    To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

11. 11

    To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

    “they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder”