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as in to dismount
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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descend (on or upon)

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verb (2)

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The responders learned that a party of four climbers from Renton, which is a suburb of Seattle, were involved in a fall while descending a steep gully, the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said. Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025 The room then descended into an Alien: Earth invasion with a creature appearing on stage. Peter White, Deadline, 13 May 2025 Climbing up the pipes of a utility shaft, the inmates disassembled the ventilation covers, descended the roof on a chimney pipe and scaled a fence. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025 At night, when Coughlin and his colleagues were home, LAPD gang squads descended on the Nick or Jordan Downs and cracked skulls for small infractions. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for descend

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“Descend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descend. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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