DESCEND

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descend verb A. intranzitiv

1. a (s)coborî; a se lăsa în jos.

2. a descreşte, a cădea.

3. (astron.) a coborî sub orizont.

4. to descend from a) a descinde din, a proveni din / de la, a coborî din, a trece de la (general la particular);

to descend from a peasant family a se trage dintr-o familie de ţărani; b) a trece de la / din;

to descend from father to son a trece din tată în fiu, de la tată la fiu;

to descend upon a se năpusti (din zbor) asupra; a tăbărî asupra, a năvăli asupra, a ataca;

to descend to a condescinde să, a binevoi să.

descend verb B. tranzitiv

a coborî (dealul, scările).

Smoke, who had descended to the deck and was now standing by my side, began to chuckle in a significant way.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The influence for all good, which she came to exercise over me at a later time, begins already to descend upon my breast.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I ran to the door, intending to descend and try and join them through the main hall, as I thought that way might be opened for them.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Both he and his company would often descend to ask me questions, and receive my answers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The next moment she had descended to his side.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Together they had descended the stairs.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Indians now could only shake their heads and shrug their shoulders when we expressed by signs our desire to descend.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My mother had in the meanwhile descended, and we all drew up to the table.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, could I have descended, could I have come down, ere he fled!

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)