1. to move or go down from a higher to a lower place
2. to come from an ancestor; to be related to someone from an earlier generation
3. to arrive or attack suddenly and in large numbers

Examples

• The airplane began to descend for landing.
• We descended the mountain carefully in the fog.
• She descends from Irish immigrants who came here in the 1800s.
• The stairs descend to the basement.
• Tourists descended on the small town during the festival.
• I won’t descend to his level of rudeness.
• The path descends steeply through the forest.