English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of descend

descend

/verb/ उतरना; नीचे उतरना; उतर जाना; नीचे आना; ऊंचाई कम हो जाना; नीचा उड़ना; नतीजा होना; वंशज होना; बिगड़ना;

Synonym get off; get down; disembark; dismount; derive; deteriorate; go down; retrograde; fall; befall; Fall;

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English Dictionary:

1. Descend

[v. i.]

- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
- To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
- To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

2. Descend

[v. t.]

- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.