descend meaning
EN
[dɪˈsɛnd] 
US FR descend 
- VerbSGdescendsPRdescendingPT, PPdescendedPREdés-SUF-end
- (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.
- The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.
- We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.
- (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
- [He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. John Milton.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Alexander Pope.
- (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self.
- he descended from his high estate
- (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
- the beggar may descend from a prince
- a crown descends to the heir
- (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.
- (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of descend in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Verbs
- en descended
- fr descend
- en descending
- fr descendants
- en descendants
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "descend" is a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.