DESCENDED Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

descended

verb

past tense of descend

as in fell

to lead or extend downward the pathway descends to the river bank

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as in deteriorated

to become worse or of less value the order of the classroom descended into chaos when the teacher left the room

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as in plunged

to go to a lower level especially abruptly leaves slowly descended from the branches in the gentle autumn wind wait for the elevator to descend

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as in dismounted

to come down from something (as a vehicle) the driver descended from the truck's cab, dreading to see what he had hit

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Recent Examples of descended More than a dozen others lay wounded as the downtown block descended into chaos. —

Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026 At least seven tornadoes broke out Wednesday night across the Midwest and Southeast, as severe weather descended on a large swath of the country. —

Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 18 June 2026 In this exclusive excerpt, Norman writes about the infamous moment where Epstein first descended down into the dank Cavern Club and saw the Beatles play for the first time. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026 But the global media had descended upon this faraway island to cover a crisis that seemed to be taking place almost entirely on TV. —

Joshua Hunt, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2026 Fans from around the globe have descended on the United States for the FIFA World Cup, and few fanbases have made as much noise — literally and figuratively — as those supporting Scotland. —

Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026 The next day, young Black hopefuls descended on Central Wharf, a bustling boatyard in the seaside town, to hear what the men had to say. —

Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 The tour descended down a vertiginous circular staircase to the ground floor, which featured a marble dance floor, three marble fireplaces, an indoor koi pond (empty), a game room, and two large bars set within fourteen paces of each other, give or take. —

Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 On Tuesday, rodeo lovers and animal welfare advocates descended on downtown Los Angeles to argue for and against a draft ordinance that would ban the hooved spectacles within the city. —

Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

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Aalto University / Mahdi Asgari History is filled with stories of the great being felled by the puny.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 June 2026
And those are the lucky ones, who weren’t felled by late-season injuries and bumped from the tournament the way Brazil’s Rodrygo, Japan’s Kaoru Mitoma and Germany’s Serge Gnabry were.

— Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026