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▸ verb:  Senses relating to moving from a higher to a lower position.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To move (someone or something) from a higher to a lower place or position; to bring or send (someone or something) down.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
▸ verb:  (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
▸ verb:  (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
▸ verb:  (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
▸ verb:  (chemistry, obsolete) Of a liquid substance: to distil out from another substance and gather at the bottom of a container; also, to distil a substance to obtain another liquid substance in this manner.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
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▸ verb:  To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
▸ verb:  Of a physical thing (such as a a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
▸ verb:  In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
▸ verb:  Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
▸ verb:  Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
▸ verb:  Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
▸ verb:  (reflexive) To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
▸ verb:  (reflexive, chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
▸ verb:  (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
▸ verb:  (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
▸ verb:  Senses relating to passing down from a source to another thing.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To trace (a lineage) from earlier to later generations.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”)

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