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Crossword-Solution: DESCENT 7 letters, 157 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Descent n. The act of descending, or passing downward; change of
place from higher to lower.
Descent n. Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion
from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon
the enemy.
Descent n. Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station,
virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to
a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to
the worse, etc.
Descent n. Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation;
lineage; birth; extraction.
Descent n. Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not
necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by
reason of consanguinity.
Descent n. Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or
sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
Descent n. That which is descended; descendants; issue.
Descent n. A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a
degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Descent n. Lowest place; extreme downward place.
Descent n. A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

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We have 157 clues for the answer “DESCENT”

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A ___ of woodpeckers 1 answer
A parachute drop. 1 answer
BEING descended 1 answer
Climber's downward journey 1 answer
Climber's return trip 1 answer
Continued reduction in altitude 1 answer
DESCENDING motion 1 answer
DOWNWARD motion 1 answer
Down slope 1 answer
Downward inclination 1 answer
Downward journey 1 answer
Downward move 1 answer
Downward path 1 answer
Drop from above 1 answer
Elevator experience 1 answer
Fear Factory song that goes down? 1 answer
Half of a mountaineering expedition 1 answer
Heard opposition coming down (7) 1 answer
High-to-low movement 1 answer
JOURNEY down 1 answer
Landing element 1 answer
Landing preceder 1 answer
Like some candles and markers 1 answer
Mountain climber's return 1 answer
Mountain climber's return trip 1 answer
Rappelling 1 answer
Rocket maneuver 1 answer
Scuba diver's dive 1 answer
Second half of a mountaineer's trip 1 answer
Spelunker's activity 1 answer
Start of a scuba dive 1 answer
Start of a trip in a bathysphere 1 answer
Touchdown predecessor 1 answer
Trip to a mine 1 answer
Trip to the bottom 1 answer
Downward movement 2 answers
FALL in scale 2 answers
Flight portion 2 answers
Genealogist's concern 3 answers
__ cropper 3 answers
Darwin's study 3 answers
Flight pattern 3 answers
sonship 3 answers
submergence 3 answers
subsidence 3 answers
downward course 4 answers
Genealogical record 4 answers
bastardy 4 answers
downward slope 5 answers
ASCENT (ant.) 5 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESCENT (5)

From this descent Celestial vertues rising, will appear More glorious and more dread then from no fall, And trust themselves to fear no second fate: Mee though just right, and the fixt Laws of Heav’n Did first create your Leader, next, free choice, With what besides, in Counsel or in Fight, Hath bin achievd of merit, yet this loss Thus farr at least recover’d, hath much more Establisht in a safe unenvied Throne Yeilded with full consent.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven! Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety—their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours—and to have carried out their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with DESCENT (3)

The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize th…
Craig D. Lounsbrough
But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
Gayle Forman Where She Went
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
Franz Kafka
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Appears in: AARP, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 52 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).