descended
- 1Simple past and past participle of descend.
A thick fog descended over the harbor as evening fell.
By noon the rescue team had descended into the flooded cave.
Note
A regular -ed form that does double duty: the simple past (the fog descended) and the past participle after have (had descended into the cave). Because descend can take a direct object, the participle also builds passives (the north face was descended by rope), and transitive pasts like she descended the stairs need no preposition. The older causative use, lowering someone or something, now sounds archaic: they descended the bucket into the well.
descended is a form of descend
descend, verb: To move from a higher place or position to a lower one, whether by climbing, falling, flowing, or walking. Full entry
- Forms
- descenddescends he/she/itdescending -ing formdescended past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- descend → descended: add -ed
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