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descend

[dih-send] / dɪˈsɛnd /


VERB
trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down
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Descend Point Loma Avenue to its end and turn left on Canon Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Descend the spiral Atmospheric stairway path What rough beast is this?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

Descend steeply to Corryhully bothy for a final pit stop.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

Descend before the rains came again and flooded their way out.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2017

Prone to the lowest vale the aerial tribes Descend.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon




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