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(to descend) (physical) ''To move or be moved into something.''

(ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

To push (something) into something.

To make by digging or delving.

(golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

(social) ''To diminish or be diminished.''

(of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

(figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

(archaic) To conceal and appropriate.

(archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

(slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).

(slang) To pay absolutely.

(archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.

To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

(archaic) To die.

📑 Synonyms: Thesaurus:die

To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

(basin) A basin used for holding water for washing.

A drain for carrying off wastewater.

(geology) A sinkhole.

A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.

A heat sink.

A place that absorbs resources or energy.

(ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.

Descending motion; descent.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

(programming) An object or callback that captures events.

(graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.

(graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.

An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

A depression in a stereotype plate.

(theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.

(mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.

(game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.