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Exact Match:

descent

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

a movement downward

a downward slope or bend

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Synonyms:

• Brownian movement,
• Indian file,
• abasement,
• advance,
• affiliation,
• altitude peak,
• angular motion,
• apparentation,
• array,
• articulation,
• ascending,
• ascent,
• automatic control,
• axial motion,
• backflowing,
• backing,
• backset,
• backward motion,
• bank,
• birth,
• blast-off,
• blood,
• bloodline,
• branch,
• breed,
• brood,
• burn,
• burnout,
• buzz,
• career,
• catena,
• catenation,
• ceiling,
• chain,
• chain reaction,
• chaining,
• characterize,
• check,
• children,
• climbing,
• comedown,
• coming after,
• common ancestry,
• communicate,
• concatenation,
• concavity,
• connection,
• consanguinity,
• consecution,
• consecutiveness,
• construe,
• continuation,
• continuity,
• continuum,
• course,
• current,
• cycle,
• de-escalation,
• debasement,
• decadence,
• decadency,
• declension,
• declination,
• decline,
• declivity,
• deflation,
• deformation,
• degeneracy,
• degenerateness,
• degeneration,
• degradation,
• delineate,
• demotion,
• depict,
• depravation,
• depravedness,
• depreciation,
• depression,
• derivation,
• derogation,
• descendants,
• descending,
• describe,
• deterioration,
• detrusion,
• devolution,
• diminution,
• dip,
• direct line,
• discomfiture,
• disgrace,
• distaff side,
• distinguish,
• down,
• downgate,
• downgrade,
• downhill,
• downtrend,
• downturn,
• downward mobility,
• downward motion,
• downward trend,
• drift,
• driftage,
• drone,
• drop,
• ducking,
• dump,
• dying,
• ebb,
• ebbing,
• effeteness,
• elucidate,
• embarrassment,
• end of burning,
• endless belt,
• endless round,
• exemplify,
• explain,
• explicate,
• expound,
• extension,
• extraction,
• fading,
• failing,
• failure,
• failure of nerve,
• fall,
• falling-off,
• family,
• female line,
• file,
• filiation,
• flight,
• flow,
• flux,
• following,
• forward motion,
• fruit,
• gamut,
• gradation,
• grade,
• gradient,
• grandchildren,
• great-grandchildren,
• hang,
• hangdog look,
• hanging,
• hauling down,
• heirs,
• hollowness,
• hostages to fortune,
• house,
• hum,
• humbled pride,
• humiliation,
• ignition,
• illustrate,
• image,
• impact,
• impart,
• incline,
• inheritors,
• interpret,
• involution,
• issue,
• kids,
• lapse,
• launch,
• letdown,
• lift-off,
• limn,
• line,
• line of descent,
• lineage,
• little ones,
• logical sequence,
• loss of tone,
• lowering,
• male line,
• monotone,
• mortification,
• mounting,
• narrate,
• new generation,
• nexus,
• oblique motion,
• offspring,
• ongoing,
• onrush,
• order,
• order of succession,
• origin,
• passage,
• pedigree,
• pendulum,
• periodicity,
• phylum,
• picture,
• plenum,
• plummeting,
• plunging,
• portray,
• posteriority,
• posterity,
• postposition,
• powder train,
• procession,
• progeny,
• progress,
• progression,
• prolongation,
• put-down,
• queue,
• race,
• radial motion,
• random motion,
• range,
• rank,
• recite,
• recount,
• recurrence,
• reduction,
• reflowing,
• refluence,
• reflux,
• regression,
• rehearse,
• render,
• report,
• reticulation,
• retrocession,
• retrogradation,
• retrogression,
• reversal,
• reverse,
• reverse of fortune,
• rise,
• rising,
• rising generation,
• rocket launching,
• rotation,
• round,
• routine,
• row,
• run,
• rush,
• scale,
• seed,
• self-abasement,
• self-abnegation,
• self-diminishment,
• sept,
• sequence,
• series,
• set,
• setback,
• setdown,
• severe check,
• shame,
• shamefacedness,
• shamefastness,
• shoot,
• shot,
• side,
• sideward motion,
• single file,
• sinking,
• slippage,
• slope,
• slump,
• soaring,
• sons,
• spear side,
• spectrum,
• spindle side,
• state,
• stem,
• sternway,
• stirps,
• stock,
• strain,
• stream,
• string,
• subjunction,
• submergence,
• subsiding,
• succession,
• successiveness,
• suffixation,
• swath,
• sword side,
• thread,
• throwback,
• thrusting under,
• tier,
• train,
• traject,
• trajectory,
• trajet,
• transmit,
• treasures,
• trend,
• upward motion,
• velocity peak,
• wane,
• windrow,
• younglings,
• youngsters