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adjective
Moving or sloping down
Synonyms: descendent, downward
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verb
To lower oneself
Synonyms: stooping, sinking, lowering
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verb
To descend figuratively
Synonyms: deteriorating, degenerating, worsening, sinking, declining, retrograding, atrophying
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verb
To have hereditary derivation
Synonyms: springing, issuing, deriving
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verb
Come as if by falling
Synonyms: falling, plumping, precipitating, swooping, penetrating, submerging, stumbling, tripping, slumping, tumbling, disembarking, lighting, settling, alighting, declining, sloping, pitching, dropping, dipping, sinking, plummeting, plunging, toppling, dismounting, stooping, sliding, slipping
Antonyms: rising, ascending, mounting, increasing, climbing
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verb
Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
Synonyms: sinking, falling, dropping, stooping, coming, deigning, sloping, pitching, penetrating, originating, lowering, deriving, landing, inclining, declining, dipping, diving, condescending
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adjective
Coming down or downward
Antonyms: ascending