Redescend

Quick meaning: Redescend is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent).

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent).

Example Sentences

I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.

[…] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;

[…] the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.

1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67, To thee sweet Spirit I return That love wherwith my heart doth burn, And these bless’d notions of my brain I now breath up to thee again, O let them redescend, and still My soul with holy raptures fill.

Word Forms

• redescends
• redescending
• redescended

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include redecline, condescend, descend, rediminish, declimb, down.

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