What does descend on you mean?
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What does descend on you mean?
/dɪˈsend/ If a group of people descend on a place or person, they arrive, usually without warning or without being invited: Sorry to descend on you like this, but we didn’t have a phone to call you. The police descended on the house in the early hours of the morning. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
What does descend mean mean?
to come or go down
1 : to come or go down from a higher place or level to a lower one The elevator descended. 2 : to move down or down along Descending the cliff was dangerous. 3 : to slope or lead downward The road descends to the valley.
What does it mean to descend to someone?
— phrasal verb with descend verb [ I/T ] /dɪˈsend/ to have a particular person, group, or type of people in your family background: He is descended from a long line of farmers.
What does descend upon mean?
phrasal verb. descend on/upon somebody/something. to visit somebody/something in large numbers, sometimes unexpectedly.
What does lay prostrate mean?
1 : stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission also : lying flat. 2 : completely overcome and lacking vitality, will, or power to rise was prostrate from the heat. 3 : trailing on the ground : procumbent prostrate shrubs.
What is the difference between descent and dissent?
The word dissent is derived from the Latin word dissentire, which means to disagree, to quarrel, to contradict. Descent means to move in a downward direction, to slope downward, to fall, to decline. Descent may also refer to a degeneration, to move from a higher state to a lower state.
What is the past tense for descend?
descended
descend Definitions and Synonyms
| present tense | |
|---|---|
| he/she/it | descends |
| present participle | descending |
| past tense | descended |
| past participle | descended |
What does the opposite of descended?
We have listed all the opposite words for descend alphabetically. ascend. arise. climb. escalate.
What does prostate with grief mean?
3 : to reduce to submission, helplessness, or exhaustion was prostrated with grief.
Is it descent or decent?
What’s the difference between decent and descent? Decent is an adjective that means adequate or suitable, as in a decent meal, or good or respectable, as in a decent person. Descent is a noun that means the act of moving downward (descending), a downward movement, or downward movement in general.
What is family descent?
descent, the system of acknowledged social parentage, which varies from society to society, whereby a person may claim kinship ties with another.
How do you use decent in a sentence?
How to use Decent in a sentence
- You can’t be decent for two seconds, can you?
- She looked decent in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt.
- You’re being decent right now.
- Looks like you could use a decent meal.
- I’m going to get an education and a decent job.
- Still, sometimes he’s decent enough that I think there’s more to him.
What is the opposite descend?
Near Antonyms for descend. board, climb (aboard), get in, mount.
