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descend

verb as in condescend

verb as in trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down

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“When it fell out, I was driving down the road and I was just like, there was something that just felt like the descending part of it,” she says.

Before the injury, Sheldon football and baseball assistant coach Scott Wright thought every college football coach in America soon would descend on their small town to start courting their quarterback.

You may eventually see that you’ve been bamboozled, or you may continue to descend into the mass psychosis gripping the American mind.

From Salon

The atmosphere in the city following the racist killings was "like a cloud" had descended, she added.

From BBC

A fireworks display descended into chaos when rockets flew into the crowd and hit spectators.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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