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descend

[dih-send] / dɪˈsɛnd /


VERB
trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down
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The final on 18 January in Rabat, which Senegal went on to win 1-0, descended into disarray when Senegal's players left the field after Morocco were awarded a stoppage-time penalty.

From BBC

Yes, another savage debutante season is upon us as matchmaking mayhem descends on Bridgerton once more.

From BBC

But nobody wants to see the largest Middle East nation by population - around 93 million - descend into chaos, sparking a humanitarian and refugee crisis.

From BBC

In one of the more unusual episodes, Bovino and his men descended on the city’s MacArthur Park on horseback.

From The Wall Street Journal

In October, a resident of View Park-Windsor Hills, an unincorporated neighborhood in West Los Angeles, spied a man descending into a manhole and called police.

From Los Angeles Times