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Descended

/dɪˈsɛndɪd/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Descended"

verb

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
To enter mentally; to retire.
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
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"

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