descend
dis end
- v move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- v come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
She was descended from an old Italian noble family - v do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- v come as if by falling
- Cat fanciers descend on New York's Madison Square Garden for the fifth annual CFA-IAMS Cat Championships.
- Every January, a lively mlange of global business magnates, world leaders, entrepreneurs, activists, journalists and intellectuals descend upon the Swiss village to ski .
- It urged Africans all over the Union to descend last week upon local police stationswithout their passbooks, without arms, without violenceand demand to be arrested.