to descend

Examples

• All

• And so it it effectively created a failed state that descended into civil war.

• With every rest they took, once silence descended, the gloomier and spookier the place felt.

  Fiction book (1992)

• And the spirit will not descend without song.

  Bulworth (1998)

• And very quickly things descended into hell.

• May your mercy, Lord, descend upon us.

  The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

• A dark cloud had descended on the valley.

  Babe (1995)

• East of Victoria, the French retreat descended into total chaos.

• There is a curtain of despair descending across Eastern Europe.

  Collapse (2012)

• This failure strained the Persian King's mind to breaking point and he began to descend into paranoia and madness.

• Then, as the French prepared, an uneasy and suspicious calm descended upon the battlefield of Verdun.

  The Great War

Synonyms

F

to fall

vsto descend

∞ 1.0

Move or drop down from a higher to a lower place

spreads over an area like a covering rather than moving to a lower point

S

to settle

vsto descend

540 2.8

To become calm and still after movement or excitement

spreads over an area as if coming from above rather than calming

S

to sink

vsto descend

358 1.0

To move down physically or emotionally, often when tired

spreads across a place as if coming from above rather than lowering in state

C

to come down

vsto descend

221 2.8

To become lower, for example temperature or prices

spreads over an area as if coming from above rather than simply lowering

D

to drop down

vsto descend

34 1.8

To fall from a higher place to a lower place

spreads over an area as if coming from above rather than shifting between heights

Antonyms

R

to rise

718 1.0

To move upward into the air, like smoke or mist

How Intense

to overwhelm

164 4.4

to engulf

40 5.1

to envelop

41 4.5

to descend

80 4.2

to creep in

14 4.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology