verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ascending/descending order (= with the lowest or highest number first )
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The films are ranked in ascending order of profitability.
descend a ladder formal (= climb down )
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He closed the hatch and descended the ladder.
descend/slip into chaos (= gradually become completely confused and disorganized )
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After the invasion, the country lapsed into chaos.
silence falls/descends (= a silence begins )
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A sudden silence fell over the room.
slide/fall/descend into anarchy
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The nation is in danger of falling into anarchy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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Then they descended again to the concourse.
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By the time the group reached Brescia, the clouds had descended again , and the factory was rather gloomy inside.
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The Dark Times were again descending over the universe.
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Marie-Angéle met her, deflected her; they spoke, and Madame turned to descend again .
directly
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The pod appeared to be descending directly towards a winding ribbon of water.
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The Yellowstone herd, which is directly descended from those last surviving bison, is of particular spiritual importance to those tribes.
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At the bottom, the spiral staircase descends directly into area 70.
on
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When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.
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Long before night fell, serious parade lovers were descending on downtown to get a good seat.
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Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy's voice come from the house.
slowly
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Reaching out for the banister rail, he switched on the torch and slowly descended the stairs.
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As the land sank toward An Khe, I reduced the collective and let the ship descend slowly .
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As Discovery curved still closer toward Saturn, the Sun slowly descended toward the multiple arches of the rings.
then
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The path then descends to the Pass of Ryvoan and from here back to the Glenmore car park.
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She saw Alexei, paused and smiled, and then descended the few steps and came towards him.
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She straightened the skirt that Thérèse had lent her, dusted it with both hands, then descended the stairs.
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Path rises for ¼ mile then descends into valley. 3 Cross stream by easy natural stepping-stones as soon as it is reached.
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The old road then descends to join the new.
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She could then descend upon the Grand Hotel to take tea.
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The command module would then descend to the sea on its parachutes.
to
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But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to ?
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Elsewhere, local authority treatment could descend to little more than fashionable mediocrity.
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It seemed a poor thing to have descended to.
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You have three minutes to descend to below the ceiling before the Solution goes into error mode.
■ NOUN
ancestor
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Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors .
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All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
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All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor .
earth
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Ba'al was thought to have descended into the earth and the sacrifices and energy invigorated him and brought about his resurrection.
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Every year buildings and streets descend deeper into the earth , four inches in some neighborhoods, one foot in others.
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The victim settles horizontally, floating downwind as it waddles side to side, then gently descends to the earth .
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Swore like a trooper, drank like a pagan, smoked like a bomber descending to earth .
foot
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I descended to 500 feet , then continued descending with a Rate 1 on to final and continued the descent to 100 feet.
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A Hiller in autorotation descends at 1700 feet per minute.
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Vertical pitches descend 250 feet to an immense cavern, second in dimensions only to the chamber in Gaping Gill.
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I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank.
ground
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It is an earthwork which appears to descend into the ground and is partially buried in the soil.
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I descended to the ground floor, passing a man in his mid-sixties, clutching a twenty-dollar bill.
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Behind him, the lift shuddered and began to descend to the ground floor.
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Flying over Normandy he descended to ground level to escape the fog and to find his bearings.
heaven
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A turbulent black cloud like a rumpled sheet seemed to descend from heaven .
level
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However, it is important that we do not descend to their level .
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But soon after that he descended to an unreachable level .
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If I use violence I descend to his level .
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Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
mountain
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Venables broke both legs in a 90m fall while descending the mountain after the first ascent.
order
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The list will be presented in descending numerical order of identifier.
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The table is now sorted in descending order according to the Amount field, as shown in figure 11. 5.
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The groups were themselves divided, in descending order , into offices, divisions, and branches.
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We also want this table sorted by the amount that the clients owe in descending order .
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This is also a list in descending order of color from orange-red to pale pink.
path
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The path then descends to the Pass of Ryvoan and from here back to the Glenmore car park.
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The path descends to run by the Allt Coire Ardair.
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I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank.
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Turn right, with a steep drop on the left where the path descends towards the Upper Neuadd reservoir.
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From here the path descends to the top of Summerhouse Crag which stands over the Llugwy Gorge.
road
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The road descends the hill and passes along the garden fronts of the houses.
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Turn right here, and the road gradually descends to the little town of Appenzell.
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The old road then descends to join the new.
side
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As dawn began to lighten the sky they topped the rise of another mist-shrouded valley and began to descend the other side .
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When Stafford saw Cantor move slowly toward the right, he descended on the opposite side .
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From the summit the path then turns a little to the left to descend the other side of the hill towards Ryvoan bothy.
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They spent an hour descending one side of a large valley, only to take twice as long ascending the other side.
silence
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One might mention an object or a locality, and sepulchral silence would descend .
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And now the uproar that he had finally raised was dying away, and a gratifying silence was descending once again.
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Which rats left which ship. Silence was descending all over the city.
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He can make an event of a particular silence descending upon the river.
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He felt silence descend and press on him.
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It was in 1933 when the explosive din suddenly stopped and an eerie silence descended on Boulder Canyon.
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As the Archon entered, a silence descended over the gathered parliamentarians.
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A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.
slave
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He was descended from slaves who had accompanied their master, one Rafe Straker, from Long Island in 1783.
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One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears, the other is descended from slaves .
stair
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I have a vivid memory of her descending the stairs to the conservatory where we said our vows.
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What do I do there in my rooms before I descend the stairs , return through the door, and wake?
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And she descended the stairs and, tapping lightly on the door, turned the handle and went in.
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The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs .
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Slowly I descended the stairs and went out into the courtyard.
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As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace.
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Instead, they get the splendor of descending the stairs to their official welcome.
staircase
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Ruth's legs were soon aching with climbing steps, only to turn and descend another staircase in the opposite direction.
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Falling asleep is like descending a staircase , with each stage of sleep becoming deeper than the previous one.
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She dried herself, wrapped the soft, fragrant robe around her slim body and cautiously descended the staircase .
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At seven-thirty Paige descended the grand sweeping staircase to the hall.
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He attempted to descend a steep staircase which had no handrail, whilst holding a small child by the hand.
■ VERB
begin
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The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs.
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As dawn began to lighten the sky they topped the rise of another mist-shrouded valley and began to descend the other side.
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Behind him, the lift shuddered and began to descend to the ground floor.
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Delaney dropped to his belly and snake-like began to descend , head first, down the ladder.
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On shaking legs he began to descend .
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She reached the far side of the ridge and heard children's voices as she began to descend .
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He forced himself to bow politely, and then turned away and began to descend the stairs.
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As one tank approaches the top of the incline, the other begins to descend into the water at the lower level.
start
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But once he started descending , it was a different matter entirely.
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Lightheartedly, full of such deep contentment, I start to descend .
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That soon changed once the jet had started to descend into its approach and landing into Pulkovo Airport.
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She pushed the yoke forward and the plane's nose dipped as it started descending towards the runway.
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They start to descend the rivers, resting on the bottom during the day and travelling mostly at night.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
descend/sink to sb's level
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Betas must so live, learn, and work that we shall not sink to the cultural level of the Alphas.
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But soon after that he descended to an unreachable level .
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But whatever she is guilty of ... she can never sink to your level .
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Flying over Normandy he descended to ground level to escape the fog and to find his bearings.
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However, it is important that we do not descend to their level .
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If I use violence I descend to his level .
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In particular, coal stocks had sunk to a level below that at which distribution and use could operate efficiently.
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Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several climbers were descending the mountain.
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Slowly the two climbers descended the cliff face.
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The plane started to descend .
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We descended into the cave by a rope ladder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Darkfall storm had descended on a factory in Leeds four years earlier.
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As you descend , you will slowly begin to feel the mystery and dankness of Carlsbad.
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Having finished, she descends a little way down the twig and then lays another batch.
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On shaking legs he began to descend .
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The cave descends almost vertically through a maze of boulders from a collapsed roof and is extremely wet and muddy.
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The reflex action at this point is to descend into cynicism.
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This circuitous approach gives jets lots of time to descend to the airport.
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When Stafford saw Cantor move slowly toward the right, he descended on the opposite side.