[
  {
    "word": "descend",
    "phonetic": "/d\u026a\u02c8s\u025bnd/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/d\u026a\u02c8s\u025bnd/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/descend-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=266980"
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The rain descended, and the floods came."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To enter mentally; to retire.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "And on the suitors let thy wrath descend."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "he descended from his high estate"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To come down, as from a source, original, or stock",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be derived (from)",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A crown descends to the heir."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move toward the south, or to the southward.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "go down"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "ascend",
          "go up"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descend"
    ]
  }
]