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descender

to descend

verb des-sen-DEHR Less Common
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

to go down

Usage Note

Descender is an e→ie stem-changer: desciende, descienden. It covers physical descending and figurative 'dropping' (temperatures, prices). Descender de also means 'to be descended from' a family or lineage. The noun is descenso and the agent noun is descendiente ('descendant').

Examples

"Las temperaturas descenderán esta noche."

Natural Translation

Temperatures will drop tonight.

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