descending

Speech parts

1. descending - Noun

2. descending - Adjective

3. descending - Verb

Meaning

of Descend

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

falling downward sinking lowering dropping declining down fall cadent drop decline collapse descent derive raid
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Antonyms

ascending scale standing facing elevated floating
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Phrases with the word

descending perineum syndrome descending from descending air descending wind descending scapular vein descending branch of left colic artery

Examples

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man. David Zindell

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. Charles Godfrey Leland

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey. Andy Partridge

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate. Margaret Caroline Anderson

The pubic hair of a woman mounting is stronger than two pairs of ox descending. Corsican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

descendibility descendible descendin descending air descending air current descending aorta