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Descend

🔄 Synonyms of "Descend"

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
deriveverb	(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
stoopverb	To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
condescendverb	(intransitive) (figurative) To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
fallverb	(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
deignverb	(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
comeverb	To move toward the speaker.
go downverb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
come downverb	(intransitive) To decrease.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
risenoun	(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
ariseverb	(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
ascendverb	(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
come upverb	(idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
go upverb	(intransitive) To move upwards.
move upverb	(transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
come downverb	(intransitive) To decrease.
fallverb	(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
go downverb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
comeverb	To move toward the speaker.
deignverb	(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
condescendverb	(intransitive) (figurative) To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
deriveverb	(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
stoopverb	To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
declineverb	The act of declining or refusing something.
lowerverb	Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
killverb	(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
dismountverb	(ambitransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).
shotverb	(transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
wendverb	(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
arriveverb	(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
getverb	(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
shootverb	To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
deplaneverb	To disembark from an airplane.
disembarkverb	(intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
deboardverb	To exit a form of transportation such as a boat, ship, airplane, trolley, streetcar or spaceship.