descend

1. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Examples: "they descended the river in boats"; "to descend a ladder"; "The noble prince descended to one knee to ask for the princess’s hand in marriage."transitive

2. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Examples: "They took the steep path that descends the hill down to the beach."; "Soon after Crowhurst, the down grade steepens to 1 in 100 as the line descends the side of a valley, at the mouth of which a glimpse of the sea can be caught—the only one."transitive

3. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Examples: "[T]he common Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal Tincture of the Herb, vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: […]"archaictransitive

4. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Examples: "And there is another watergang, called Haile Fayers watergang, 4 miles long and 16 feet broad, which descendeth by a spoye of stone at Hofkirk bridge into the said great river, which must always be cast at the tenants' cost."; "They leade theyr life in pleaſure, & at a poppe, down they deſcende into hell."; "So God and man is one Chriſte. / Who ſuffered for oure ſaluacion: deſcended into hell, roſe agayne the third daye from the dead. / He aſcended into heauen, he ſytteth on the right hand of the father, God almighty: from whence he ſhall come to iudge the quicke and dead."Antonyms: ascend, climb, go up, riseintransitive

5. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Antonyms: ascend, climb, go up, riseintransitive

6. Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.Examples: "[T]he ſetting Sun / Slowly deſcended, and with right aſpect / Againſt the eaſtern Gate of Paradiſe / Leveld his eevning Rayes: […]"; "The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise."; "Sol, with broaden'd orb, descending, / Left fierce warriors still contending, / Brilliant Vesper shed her glances, / Ere they sheathed their blood-stained lances."Antonyms: ascend, climb, go up, riseintransitive