DESCENDED Synonyms: 148 Similar and Opposite Words

descended

verb

past tense of descend

as in fell

to lead or extend downward the pathway descends to the river bank

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as in deteriorated

to become worse or of less value the order of the classroom descended into chaos when the teacher left the room

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as in plunged

to go to a lower level especially abruptly leaves slowly descended from the branches in the gentle autumn wind wait for the elevator to descend

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as in dismounted

to come down from something (as a vehicle) the driver descended from the truck's cab, dreading to see what he had hit

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Recent Examples of descended But as the other two phases descended into disaster for USC (6-2, 3-2), its defense could only hold for so long. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Rather than entering a lower orbit and remaining there for several days before re-entry, the rocket stage may have descended immediately. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 National reporters, big GOP donors and the president himself have descended on Kansas as Republicans seek to stave off Hamilton’s challenge. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026 Dozens of federal agents descended on Omar Alexander Muñoz's residential cul-de-sac in Commerce, a small city in Los Angeles County, to make the arrest. — Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026 One community member told Fox News Digital that some congregations had even canceled afternoon prayers on the Sabbath as demonstrations across France descended into violence. — Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Advertisement Within minutes, the festival grounds descended into chaos. — Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026 Unrest descended into violence on the streets of cities across France over the weekend. — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 That was certainly true on Saturday night, when top-of-the-call-sheet names descended on the historic hotel for Giorgio Armani’s second annual Academy Museum Gala after-party. — Kelsey Stewart, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2026

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In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

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Netanyahu faces an international arrest warrant, experts have accused Israel of genocide, and Israel’s image has further deteriorated with a spike in settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

— Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Medical examinations initially revealed no major injury, but his condition deteriorated.

— Lance B. Fulford, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of deteriorated

Verb

Another Australian company, NextDC, plunged 40% on Wednesday after the company slashed its annual earnings forecast.

— Ashley Capoot,Jordan Novet,Annie Palmer,Lora Kolodny,Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
There had been a temporary improvement but the onset of the Iran war has plunged the country back into crisis.

— Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of plunged

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Buck has long since dismounted from his high horse, but people who live in glass houses that are also occupied by Mike Darnell should probably be a bit more judicious when hucking rocks.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, the owner of the carriage involved in the fatal crash suspended the driver indefinitely and plans to retire the horse, according to union officials, who said the driver improperly dismounted to take a photograph of his passengers.

— Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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The company crumbled after John Carreyrou, then a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, broke the story in 2015 that Theranos wasn’t using its own technology to run most of its blood tests.

— Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
In the southwestern town of Limoges, the city hall’s 19th-century bell tower crumbled under a mass of flames.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of crumbled

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As for gas, it has usually been treated as a waste product to be burned off; because there are so few pipelines to bring it to market, West Texas gas prices have even dipped negative this year.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
The four-week average of claims, which strips out week-to-week ups and downs, dipped to 197,750.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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Germany failed in its objective to capture Calais and Boulogne, the ports where British reinforcements disembarked, and the front settled down on a long north–south line from near Ostend in Belgium to the Swiss border.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
Wasson is unambiguous about the state of mind in which the young Capra disembarked in the New World.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026