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{
"term": "descend",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "descend",
"heSheIt": "descends"
},
"pastSimple": "descended",
"pastParticiple": "descended",
"ingForm": "descending"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to come or go down from a higher to a lower level",
"sensetop": "descend something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The plane began to descend."
},
{
"text": "The results, ranked **in descending order** *(= from the highest to the lowest)* are as follows…"
},
{
"text": "She descended the stairs slowly.",
"contextForm": "descend something"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["quickly", "rapidly", "slowly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to slope downwards",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "At this point the path descends steeply."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["steeply", "gently", "gradually"],
"preposition": ["into", "to"],
"phrases": [
"descend into chaos",
"descend into farce",
"descend into madness"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to arrive and begin to affect somebody/something",
"sensetop": "descend on/upon somebody/something",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Night descends quickly in the tropics."
},
{
"text": "Calm descended on the crowd.",
"contextForm": "descend on/upon somebody/something"
}
],
"synonyms": "fall"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsend/",
"audio": "de/descend/descend__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendz/",
"audio": "de/descend/descends__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendɪd/",
"audio": "de/descend/descended__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/descend/descending__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsend/",
"audio": "de/descend/descend__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendz/",
"audio": "de/descend/descends__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendɪd/",
"audio": "de/descend/descended__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈsendɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/descend/descending__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French descendre, from Latin descendere, from de- ‘down’ + scandere ‘to climb’."
}