All descent synonyms

noun descent

• slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
• plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
• lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
• parentage — derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage.
• slope — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
• declivity — a downward slope, esp of the ground
• tumble — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
• grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
• sag — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
• header — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• droop — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
• gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
• swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
• declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
• inclination — a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference: Much against his inclination, he was forced to resign.
• sinking — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
• coast — The coast is an area of land that is next to the sea.
• hill — the small hill in Washington, D.C., on which the Capitol stands.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
• precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
• incline — to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• declination — the angular distance, esp in degrees, of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial equator measured north (positive) or south (negative) along the great circle passing through the celestial poles and the body
• landslide — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
• dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
• prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
• tailspin — spin (def 23).
• relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
• family — the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
• genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
• heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
• blood — Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself.
• pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
• abasement — to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
• comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
• discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
• downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
• down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
• anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.