| Main Entry: | alight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land |
Synonyms: |
come down, debark, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, touch down |
| Main Entry: | cascade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in a rush |
Synonyms: |
descend, disgorge, flood, gush, heave, overflow, pitch, plunge, pour, spew, spill, spit up, surge, throw up, tumble, vomit |
| Main Entry: | come down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worsen |
Synonyms: |
decline, decrease, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, fail, fall, go downhill, reduce, suffer |
Antonyms: |
boost, improve |
| Main Entry: | condescend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stoop, humble oneself |
Synonyms: |
accommodate, accord, acquiesce, agree, be courteous, bend, come down off high horse, comply, concede, degrade oneself, deign, demean oneself, descend, favor, grant, high hat, lower oneself, oblige, see fit, submit, talk down to, toss a few crumbs, unbend, vouchsafe, yield |
Antonyms: |
rise above |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decay, deteriorate |
Synonyms: |
backslide, come apart at seams, corrode, corrupt, decline, decrease, deprave, descend, die on vine, disimprove, disintegrate, fall off, go downhill, go to pieces, go to the dogs, lapse, lessen, regress, retrogress, return, revert, rot, sink, slip, vitiate, worsen |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
Antonyms: |
develop, improve |
| Main Entry: | demean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | humble, humiliate |
Synonyms: |
abase, bad-mouth, belittle, bemean, cast down, contemn, cut down to size, cut rate, debase, decry, degrade, derogate, descend, despise, detract, dis, disparage, dump on, knock down, lower, pan, poor-mouth, scorn, sink, stoop |
Antonyms: |
boost, enhance, improve, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | derive from |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come from; arise |
Synonyms: |
descend, emanate, flow, head, issue, originate, proceed, rise, spring from, stem from |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move down, lower a |
Synonyms: |
cascade, cataract, cave in, coast, collapse, crash, crouch, decline, deplane, detrain, dip, disembark, dismount, dive, dribble, drop, fall, fall prostrate, get down, get off, go down, gravitate, ground, incline, light, lose balance, penetrate, pitch, plop, plummet, plunge, prolapse, set, settle, sink, slant, slide, slip, slope, slough off, slump, stoop, stumble, submerge, subside, swoop, toboggan, topple, trickle, trip, tumble, weep |
Antonyms: |
ascend, go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condescend |
Synonyms: |
abase oneself, concede, degenerate, deteriorate, humble oneself, lower oneself, patronize, stoop |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down |
Synonyms: |
arise, derive, issue, originate, proceed, spring |