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Synonyms for descending
de·scend·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
descending(a)adjective
coming down or downward
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "descending":
top-down, descendant, decreasing, desc, downstream, declining, downshift, down, ilah
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#311 | down | |
#9606 | descending | |
#12157 | downstream | |
#12187 | desc | |
#12520 | decreasing | |
#13763 | declining | |
#28531 | descendant | |
#137247 | downshift |
How to use descending in a sentence?
Could Mars still be inhabited today by micro-organisms descending from this primitive biosphere? if so, where?
To live in a country that is descending into an abyss of absurdity and fear is much more frightening than what happened to me or could happen there (on Sunday).
[ The government ] is scared to make people angry, scared to leave people without bread, which will make them even angrier, people have seen a constant decline in income since 2014, support for the president has been descending since 2018. It is risky to push people even further.
These gatherings could be seen as the first united cultural events of our island, with people from all corners of Britain descending on the areas around Stonehenge to feast on food that had been specially reared and transported from their homes.
Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale.
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