Hyphenation of descended

Definition 1 as verb

• verb

  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.

  Example: The rain descended, and the floods came.

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

  Example: And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.

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

  Example: he descended from his high estate

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  To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
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  To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
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  To be derived (from)
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  To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

  Example: A crown descends to the heir.

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  To move toward the south, or to the southward.
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  To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
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  To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

  Example: they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder