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descend

[dih-send] / dɪˈsɛnd /


VERB
trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down
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Descend Point Loma Avenue to its end and turn left on Canon Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Descend the spiral Atmospheric stairway path What rough beast is this?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

Descend before the rains came again and flooded their way out.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2017

Robert: “Your speed! You’re climbing! Descend! Descend, descend, descend!”

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2016

Descend into the tomb, wherein was buried alive the city of p. 72Herculaneum,—you find there, it is true, a gigantic skeleton, but you have within you historical associations wherewith to galvanize it. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis




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