descending

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.”

To enter mentally; to retire.

(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.”

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”

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

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

To be derived (from)

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

“A crown descends to the heir.”

To move toward the south, or to the southward.

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

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”

A descent.

“continual ascendings and descendings”

(of a sequence) Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element.

“Please arrange these numbers in a descending order.”

That causes a sequence to follow a descending order.

“We used a descending sort.”