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descending
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descending
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving down |
| Synonyms: | declining, descendent, down, downward, sinking |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condescend |
| Synonyms: | abase oneself, concede, degenerate, deteriorate, humble oneself, lower oneself, patronize, stoop |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down |
| Synonyms: | arise, derive, issue, originate, proceed, spring |
| Main Entry: | down |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | below; physically lower |
| Synonyms: | bottomward, cascading, declining, depressed, descending, downgrade, downhill, downward, dropping, earthward, falling, gravitating, groundward, inferior, nether, precipitating, sagging, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, subjacent, to the bottom, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | above, higher |
| Main Entry: | downward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthward |
| Synonyms: | descending, down, downwards |
| Main Entry: | falling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dropping |
| Synonyms: | abating, collapsing, crumbling, declining, decreasing, descending, diminishing, ebbing, lowering, plunging, settling, sinking, sliding, slipping, subsiding, toppling, tottering, tumbling, weakening |
| Antonyms: | improving, increasing, rising |
| Main Entry: | alight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land |
| Synonyms: | come down, debark, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, touch down |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in a rush |
| Synonyms: | descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, spit up, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit |
| Main Entry: | come down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worsen |
| Synonyms: | decline, decrease, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, fail, fall, go downhill, reduce, suffer |
| Antonyms: | boost, improve |
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