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1
the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude
- the airplane began its gradual descent to the landing field
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a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body
- the family patriarch's heartbreaking descent into infirmity and senility
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a change to a lower state or level
- the nation's rapid descent into anarchy after the revolution
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a loss of status
- for throwing the game, the ballplayer underwent a huge descent in the eyes of the fans
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the act or action of setting upon with force or violence
- the descent of the voracious locusts on the wheat fields
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the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
- a person of Finnish descent
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8
a downward slope
- on bicycle tours the ascents always seem to outnumber the descents
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