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descend
verb as in move down, lower
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verb as in condescend
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A resident reportedly spied a man descending into a manhole on Saturday afternoon and knew something unusual was up.
What Bowl residents have seen is the corps descend on other Palisades properties — clearing burned-out cars, piles of rubble and charred trees from single-family homes as well as the Tahitian — while leaving the Bowl untouched.
Diplomats and official delegations had descended on the Red Sea resort town in recent days to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.
On a Tuesday in late August, the BBC watched as a dozen officers waiting outside a courtroom descended on a man, two women and a small boy.
In short, each Red Delicious directly descends, graft by graft, from the first-ever Red Delicious.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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