Definition of descend

"descend" in the verb sense

1. descend, fall, go down, come down

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

"The temperature is going down"

"The barometer is falling"

"The curtain fell on the diva"

"Her hand went up and then fell again"

2. derive, come, descend

come from be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"

"he comes from humble origins"

3. condescend, deign, descend

do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

4. fall, descend, settle

come as if by falling

"Night fell"

"Silence fell"

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Quotations for descend

It is easier to descend than ascend. [ Proverb ]

Love is wont rather to ascend than descend. [ Proverb ]

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. [ Dryden ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall. [ Blair ]

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. [ Stanislaus ]

Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a step in choosing thy friend. [ The Talmud ]

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [ Dante ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. [ Colton ]

A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]

Various and very absurd notions prevailed among the ancients in regard to the dew; by some it was supposed to descend from the stars, and to be possessed of wonderful virtues. [ Barnard ]

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

descend in Scrabble®

The word descend is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters descend:

DESCEND
(94 = 44 + 50)

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In descend

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descend in Words With Friends™

The word descend is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters descend:

DESCEND
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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Words within the letters of descend

2 letter words in descend (1 word)

3 letter words in descend (6 words)

4 letter words in descend (11 words)

5 letter words in descend (8 words)

7 letter words in descend (1 word)

descend + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving descend

Shorter words in descend

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Longer words containing descend

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