Clues for the word "DESCEND"
We've had 21 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on August 27, 2026.
Definition of descend
- v. i. - To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
- v. i. - To enter mentally; to retire.
- v. i. - To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
- v. i. - To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
- v. i. - To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- v. i. - To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
- v. i. - To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- v. i. - To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- v. t. - To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
Referring Clues
- Prepare to land
- Fall
- Drop
- Climb down
- Rappel down
- Come down
- Pounce (upon)
- Reduce one's altitude
- Slope downward
- Go down
- Be patronizing
- Landing phase
- Derive (from)
- Move down
- Dismount
- Drop, as a testicle
- Drop down date on computer key tip
- Drop theologian holding "back to front" view
- Children who don't have social workers go downhill
- Sink
- Lose altitude
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 25, 2026
- Daily American - May 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2024
- Daily American - May 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 31, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 28, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 07, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 01, 2023
- LA Times - December 15, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 19, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 05, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 31, 2017
- Daily Quick - September 28, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 07, 2017
- And in 32 more crossword puzzles...