Let's descend the slope.
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Descend
/dɪˈsɛnd/
Synonyms for "descend" (221 found)
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Closest matches (45)
Strong matches (66)
derogatedescend ondeterioratedevolvedipdip downdisimprovedisintegrateditchdivedowndownwinddropdrop downdrop offebbfallfall awayfall downfall into disrepute
Verb(5 words)
Related words (110)
Noun(19 words)
leadleanlevel offlightlistlose altitudelose castelose countenancelose creditlose facelowerlower oneselfmountmovemove overovershootpancakeparachutepass onpitch
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plummetplungepointpouncepounce onpounce uponpour downprecipitateprogressrainrakeregressretreatretrograderetrogressriserotrotaterunsetsettlesettle downshelveshiftshowersidlesinkslantslopeslumpsoarspinstemstirstoopstreamsubmergesubsidesucceedswagswayswoopswoop down onswoop down upontalk downtendtend to gotilttiptouch downtraveltrend downwardtumbleupriseupwindvouchsafewanewhirlworsen
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OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
12 entriesMore specific
9 entriesCollocations
6 entriesdescend a slopedescend fromdescend intodescend rapidlydescend slowlydescend stairs
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
131 translations across 74 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- afgaan verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Albanian
3 entries- bie verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- bie verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- ulem verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
Ancient Greek
1 entries- καταβαίνω verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Arabic
4 entries- نزل verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- نزل verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- نَزَلَ verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- هبط verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Armenian
1 entries- իջնել verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Aromanian
2 entries- dipun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- versu verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- enmək verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- çökmək verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Balinese
1 entries- tuun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Bangi
1 entries- sunda verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
Bashkir
1 entries- төшөү verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Belarusian
2 entries- спуска́цца verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- спусці́цца verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Bulgarian
2 entries- слизам verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- спускам се verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Burmese
1 entries- ဆင်း verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Catalan
1 entries- descendir verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Chickasaw
1 entries- akkowa verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 下 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- 下降 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- 降 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Czech
1 entries- sestoupit verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Dutch
2 entries- afdalen verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- neerdalen verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Egyptian
1 entries- h-A-D54 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Esperanto
1 entries- profundiĝi verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Estonian
4 entries- alanduma verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- langema verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- laskuma verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- madalduma verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Finnish
3 entries- laskea verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- laskeutua verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- laskeutua verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
French
2 entries- descendre verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- descendre verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Friulian
1 entries- dismontâ verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
German
4 entries- absteigen verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- herabsteigen verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- herunterkommen verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- hinuntergehen verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
Greek
1 entries- κατεβαίνω verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Hebrew
1 entries- יָרַד verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Hindi
1 entries- उतरना verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Hungarian
2 entries- lemegy verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- lemegy verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Ido
1 entries- decensar verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Indonesian
1 entries- turun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Irish
1 entries- ísligh verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Italian
2 entries- discendere verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- scendere verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Japanese
2 entries- 降りる verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- 降下する verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Javanese
1 entries- mudhun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Khmer
1 entries- ចុះ verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Kituba
2 entries- kita verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- kukita verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Korean
3 entries- 내려가다 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- 내려오다 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- 내리다 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Lao
1 entries- ລົງ verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Latin
1 entries- descendō verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Lingala
3 entries- kita verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- kita verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- sunda verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
Lombard
1 entries- andà giò verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Malay
1 entries- turun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Maltese
1 entries- niżel verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- ushuka verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Māori
2 entries- makere verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- marere verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Norman
1 entries- d'scendre verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Occitan
3 entries- davalar verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- descendre verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- descénder verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Oromo
1 entries- bu'uu verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آشاغیلامق verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Polish
4 entries- schodzić verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- zejść verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- zniżać się verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- zniżyć się verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Portuguese
4 entries- baixar verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- descender verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- descer verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- descer verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Quechua
2 entries- bahay verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- uray verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Romanian
1 entries- coborî verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Russian
4 entries- сойти́ verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- спуска́ться verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- спусти́ться verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- сходи́ть verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- spùstiti se verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- spúštati se verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- sìlaziti verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- sȋći verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Sidamo
1 entries- dirra verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тӱжер verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Spanish
3 entries- bajar verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- descender verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- descender verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Swahili
1 entries- kushuka verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Tagalog
1 entries- bumaba verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Tamil
1 entries- இறங்கு verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Tetum
1 entries- tun verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Thai
1 entries- ลง verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kārp- verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Turkish
3 entries- alçalmak verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- inmek verb (to pass from a higher to a lower part of (something))
- inmek verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎊𐎗𐎄 verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Ukrainian
2 entries- спуска́тися verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- спусти́тися verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xuống verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Walloon
2 entries- adschinde verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- dischinde verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Welsh
1 entries- disgyn verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
West-Frisian
2 entries- dale verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
- ôfdale verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Yaghnobi
1 entries- ԝесак verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַראָפּגיין verb (to physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position)
Sample sentences
81 total sentences available.
I didn't expect his behavior to descend to such a disagreeable level.
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Humans descend from apes.
Source: tatoeba (2890531)
Tom started to descend the stairs.
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Showing 4 of 81 available sentences.