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What is the verb for descend?

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descend
  1. (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
  2. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
  3. (on) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
  4. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
  5. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
  6. (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.
  7. (astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
  8. (music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
  9. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
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  11. Examples:
    1. “The two rescue firefighters should position themselves to face forward as they descend the stairs.”
      “Within moments, I descend to depths I would have assumed impossible without scuba gear.”
      “While there would be a number of steep upward climbs, far more of the path would descend from the mountains.”
descending
descends
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.”
      “We now have to put lights on almost as soon as we get home from work as dusk descends.”
      “Nothing adds up or makes sense and the plot descends into complete mayhem and rage.”
descendeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend
  2. Examples:
    1. “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.”
      “As an eagle descendeth on its prey, so rusheth my kinsman to the onset.”
descendest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of descend
descended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of descend
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As we descended, my behind bounced off each log we passed, as though I were a piece of laundry being scrubbed on a washboard.”
      “Because of excessive use and many consecutive dry summers, the water table had descended alarmingly.”
      “Maria could see the boy's mouths moving, but the words descended into incomprehensible jabber.”
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