So when their screams descending fill the strand, / Misenus from his outlook sounds the fray.
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Descending
//dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ//
Synonyms for "descending" (119 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (59)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
9 translations across 7 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَنَازُلِيّ adj (ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element)
- تَنَازُلِيّ adj (causing a sequence to follow an descending order)
Bulgarian
1 entries- намаляващ adj (ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element)
Esperanto
1 entries- descendanta adj (moving or sloping downwards)
Finnish
2 entries- laskeva adj (ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element)
- laskeva adj (causing a sequence to follow an descending order)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- dakêşayî adj (ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element)
Romanian
1 entries- descrescător adj (ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element)
Spanish
1 entries- descendente adj (moving or sloping downwards)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it, and the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac:
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This has allowed snow leopards to hunt markhor instead of descending to relatively low altitude villages to attack precious livestock and being killed in retaliation by angry villagers.
Source: tatoeba (8724599)
"Which of these paths do you prefer?" we asked a donkey stuck between an ascending and a descending trail. "I wish there were a pickax to demolish both of them," he replied.
Source: tatoeba (9127534)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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