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descendingadjective bending downward or forwardwith descending heads the mourners made their way to the burial site bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant(also descendent), drooping, droopy, hanging, hung, inclining, nodding, pendulous, sagging, stooping, weeping floppy, limpdangling, falling, pendent(or pendant), suspendeddipping, sinking, slumping unbending, upright erect, inflexible, rigid, stiffelevated, raised, upraised to lead or extend downwardthe pathway descends to the river bank declining, dipping, dropping, falling, plunging, sinking angling, canting, cocking, heeling, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping arising, ascending, climbing, mounting, rising, uprising, upsweeping, upturning evening, flattening, leveling(or levelling), planing, smoothing, straightening to become worse or of less valuethe order of the classroom descended into chaos when the teacher left the room atrophying, crumbling, decaying, declining, degenerating, deteriorating, devolving, ebbing, regressing, retrograding, rotting, sinking, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing to go to a lower level especially abruptlyleaves slowly descended from the branches in the gentle autumn wind wait for the elevator to descend crashing, cratering, declining, dipping, diving, dropping, falling, lowering, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, sinking, skidding, tumbling abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, drooping, dwindling, dying (down), ebbing, lessening, letting up, moderating, subsiding, tapering off, waningreceding, retreating arising, ascending, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, spiking, upping accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mushrooming, picking up, snowballing, swelling, waxing to come down from something (as a vehicle)the driver descended from the truck's cab, dreading to see what he had hit |