DESCENDING

To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.

Example: "The rain descended, and the floods came."

To enter mentally; to retire.

(with on or upon) to make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

Example: "And on the suitors let thy wrath descend."

To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself

Example: "He descended from his high estate"

To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.

To come down, as from a source, original, or stock

To be derived (from)

To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.

Example: "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.

To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

Example: "They descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"