Descend is valid Scrabble Word

Is descend a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for DESCEND in dictionary:

VERB:

to come down
move or fall downwards
move down (a slope or stairs)
(of a road, path, or flight of steps) slope or lead downwards
move down a scale of quality
(of sound) become lower in pitch
(of a situation or group of people) reach (an undesirable state)
make a sudden attack on
make an unexpected visit to
(of a feeling) develop suddenly and affect a place or person

(of night or darkness) begin to occur
be a blood relative of (a specified ancestor)
(of an asset) pass by inheritance, typically from parent to child
move down (a slope etc)
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.
To enter mentally; to retire.
To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
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.
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
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.
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; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
do something that one considers to be below one\'s dignity
come as if by falling
act in a shameful way that is far below one's usual standards

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to come or go down

Words related to DESCEND

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Words that contain DESCEND

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How to use DESCEND in a sentence

Let Christ the king of Israel now descend from the cross, that we may see and believe.
We must live our toilsome lives twice over, as it was the mournful privilege of Ulysses to descend twice to the shades.
The water flows into a marble cistern, to which you descend by a flight of steps of delicate whiteness, and return by another.
Drane agreed to his proposition to descend to the second floor.
Hornblower drew the small door aside, and invited his young companion to descend.
I made my first attempt to descend the dark passage in the early summer, but there was too much water, and I was soon obliged to retreat.
Treading softly, he moved forward and seated himself cross-legged upon it! It continued to descend, and he found himself in absolute darkness.
A stone held between his feet, cut in the shape of a sugar loaf, whilst a rope fastened him to his boat, helped him to descend more rapidly.
Then, as the ripples smoothed themselves out, she seemed to forget, and began to descend again as if lured downward by her own dainty reflection.
He had still a rival in the West in the person of Clodius Albinus, who might be expected to descend upon Italy, if it were left exposed to his attacks much longer.

They separated out again, and the king began to descend, deputed probably to spy out the land.
When we had gone about seventeen miles, the balloon began to descend.
Descend into its mass to a sufficient depth, and you will find, with Fourier, by the aid of calculation, a constant temperature for each day of the year.
Not only was there the deep sand to contend with but one had to climb hills and descend valleys covered with huge boulders.
The pale road stretched before us so straight and far that it seemed to descend from the sky like a waterfall.
Then, without a word, he began to descend the tree.
Day after day he made his oblique ascent from east to south, thence to descend obliquely towards the west.
Notwithstanding the height from the ground, and our suspicions of the weakness of our ropes, so eager was each to be the first to descend, that we drew lots for the precedence.
He will seek, then, I am sure, to reach one of the rivers that flow toward the coast, so as to descend it on a raft.
The only thing they could do was to cross a river, without leaving any traces, and, later on, to descend its course.
The best man was welcome to win, while the blessings of master and mistress seemed impatient to descend on the favored one.
Kenric raised his sword to strike, the wolf bounded forward, and as his weapon was about to descend upon its head the animal swerved.
General Jackson has been directed accordingly, and should the enemy descend into the Valley, General Longstreet will attack his rear, and cut off his communications.
But now the time came not only to look down, but to descend.
In one of these theatres we are obliged to descend instead of to ascend to reach the pit and the first tier of boxes.
This the individual moves upwards or downwards whenever he wants to change the position of his feet, according as he wishes to ascend or descend.
He used to say that if everyone could read the hearts of others, most would wish to descend in the social scale.
At its greatest elevation, where the road begins gradually to descend into the valley beyond, there stands a post erected to commemorate a calamity.
After a long time they still had not reached the height on which the post was supposed to be, and from where the road was to descend toward Gschaid.
Marie, I would cast aside my crown, descend my throne without one regretful murmur, could I but hold him to my heart once more, as I did the night he bade me his glad farewell.
You have to climb these streaks of red-hot ash, descend again on the other side, climb again, climb, climb without halt, without repose, without shade.
This brings them to the river of ALEXANDRIA, and by it they descend to the latter city.
As she turned to descend, her glance fell upon Hamil who was crossing the lawn directly below.

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