descend

Other forms of descend

past tense

descended·

present participle

descending·

third person

descends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about descend

What does descend mean?

descend means "move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in descend?

descend has 2 syllables: de-scend. The stress falls on "scend". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɛnd/.

What is another word for descend?

Close synonyms include fall, go down, come down, derive, come. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of descend?

The recorded antonyms are ascend.

Is descend a common word?

descend is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with descend?

5 words rhyme with descend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.