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All societies have means for organizing residence and descent groups.His descent into chaos and criminality had begun.The sudden descent could have happened because the pilots failed to put on oxygen masks.What followed for all of them was a descent into showbiz hell.Then begins the long descent into hell.And then will begin the descent into hell.There were reports that the brakes had failed as the coach rounded the bend on the steep descent.There was a great deal of screaming from the cast and the audience and a satisfying descent into chaos.The distinction between local groups and descent groups is therefore one between common residence and a sense of common identity.Reaching for a dictionary is made all the more difficult by the steep and winding descent that follows shortly afterwards.The other path for failed attempts at behavioral control through physical punishment was outright cruelty and sometimes descent into unremitting family warfare.Their cosy marriage's sudden descent into chaos is chillingly depicted.In this situation, women are mutually exchanged by descent groups in each generation.It traces descent through the father, and descent groups are formed around the relationship between father and son.The coach crashed through a roadside wall on a sharp bend at the bottom of a steep descent near Grenoble.Prominent family of French descent.Like so many of Scottish descent my family now finds itself in England.Nobody gains from Syria's descent into chaos.But, of course, there is a slow and awful descent into chaos.I got to know a lot of people of West Indian descent.

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descent

British English: descent NOUN
A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
During the descent three people collapsed in the cold and rain.
  • American English: descent
  • Brazilian Portuguese: declive
  • Chinese: 下降
  • European Spanish: descenso
  • French: descente
  • German: Abstieg
  • Italian: discesa
  • Japanese: 降下
  • Korean: 하강
  • European Portuguese: declive
  • Latin American Spanish: descenso

Chinese translation of 'descent'

descent

(dɪˈsɛnt)

n

  1. (c/u) [of mountain, hill etc] 下坡 (xiàpō)
  2. (c/u) (by aircraft) 下降 (xiàjiàng)
  3. (u) (= origin) 血统(統) (xuètǒng)
  4. (c) (= slope) 斜坡 (xiépō) (条(條), tiáo)
    of African/European descent 非洲/欧(歐)洲血统(統) (Fēizhōu/Ōuzhōu xuètǒng)
(noun) 
Definition
the act of descending
The airplane encountered turbulence on its descent into the airport.
Synonyms
fall
The helmets are designed to withstand impacts equivalent to a fall from a bicycle.
drop
There was a sheer drop just outside my window.
plunge
a refreshing plunge into cold water
coming down
swoop
(noun) 
Definition
a path or way leading downwards
On the descents, cyclists freewheel past cars.
Synonyms
slope
a mountain slope
drop
dip
She acknowledged me with a slight dip of the head.
incline
I came to a halt at the edge of a steep incline.
slant
The house is on a slant.
declination
declivity
(noun) 
Definition
a decline or degeneration
his swift descent from respected academic to social pariah
Synonyms
decline
Rome's decline in the fifth century.
deterioration
the rapid deterioration in relations between the two countries
degradation
the progressive degradation of the state
decadence
a prime example of the decadence of the age
degeneration
the degeneration of our political system
debasement
instances of domination and debasement
(noun) 
Definition
derivation from an ancestor
All the contributors were of foreign descent.
Synonyms
origin
people of Asian origin
extraction
a young Brazilian of German extraction
ancestry
They can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.
lineage
They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.
family tree
the difficulties of tracing a complex family tree
parentage
She is a Londoner of mixed English and Jamaican parentage.
heredity
genealogy
He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her.
derivation
The derivation of its name is obscure.

Additional synonyms

in the sense of ancestry
Definition
family descent
They can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.
Synonyms
origin,
house,
family,
line,
race,
stock,
blood,
ancestors,
descent,
pedigree,
extraction,
lineage,
forebears,
antecedents,
parentage,
forefathers,
genealogy,
derivation,
progenitors
in the sense of debasement
instances of domination and debasement
Synonyms
degradation,
corruption,
perversion,
abasement,
baseness,
depravity
in the sense of decadence
Definition
a decline in morality or culture
a prime example of the decadence of the age
Synonyms
degeneration,
decline,
corruption,
fall,
decay,
deterioration,
dissolution,
perversion,
dissipation,
debasement,
retrogression

Synonyms of 'descent'

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