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Verb
(intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward
(intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
(on) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
(intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
(intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
(intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.
(astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
(music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
(transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of