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descend verb

  /di-/ , /dəˈsɛnd/ , /dɪˈsɛnd/
  • (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
 спуска́ться, сойти́, спусти́ться, сходи́ть
  • Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
 напа́сть, напада́ть, обру́шиваться, обру́шиться
  • (reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
  • (intransitive, often, passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
 произойти́, происходи́ть

descendant noun

  /dɪˈsendənt/ , /dɪˈsɛndənt/
  • One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
 пото́мок, потомок
  • (biology) A later evolutionary type.
 пото́мок

descender noun

  /dɪˈsɛndə(ɹ)/
  • (typography) The part of a letter or number that is drawn below the baseline (the bottom of most lowercase letters).
  • (typography, uncommon) A letter that has such a portion, such as g, j, or in some fonts Q.
 хвост

descending adjective

  /dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ/
пото́мок
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