descend
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they descend | |
he / she / it descends | |
past simple descended | |
past participle descended | |
-ing form descending |
- [intransitive, transitive] (formal)
to come or go down from a higher to a lower level 下來;下去;下降 The plane began to descend. 飛機開始降落。 The results, ranked in descending order (= from the highest to the lowest) are as follows… 結果按遞減順序排列如下… - descend something
She descended the stairs slowly. 她緩慢地走下樓梯。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- rapidly
- slowly
- …
- [intransitive] (formal)
(of a hill, etc. )山等 to slope downwards opposite ascend下斜;下傾 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- steeply
- gently
- gradually
- …
- into
- to
- descend into chaos
- descend into farce
- descend into madness
- …
- [intransitive] (literary)
(of night, darkness, a mood, etc. )夜晚、黑暗、情緒等 to arrive and begin to affect somebody/something synonym fall降臨;來臨
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’.