descending
/dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ/ adjective C2- Moving or sloping downwards.
- Ordered such that each element is less than or equal to the previous element. (of a sequence) · Please arrange these numbers in a descending order.
- Causing a sequence to follow a descending order. · We used a descending sort.
- Becoming lower in pitch.
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Darcy so bad as this--though I have never liked him, I had not thought so very ill of him--I had supposed him to be despising his fellow-creatures in general, but did not suspect him of descending to such malicious revenge, such injustice, such inhumanity as this!”
After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two gentlemen behind, on resuming their places, after descending to the brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration.
But Jupiter is descending to-day.
“What was it that you thought?” asked the young man anxiously, in his turn descending from the table.
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