Descendant

Definition

descend /dÇ'send/ v ၁။ ( fml ) (က) ဆင္းသည္။ ဆင္းသက္သည္။ The lift began to descend. ❍ Put the eight points in descending order of importance. ❍ Slowly she descended the stairs. (ခ) (ေတာင္စသည္) နိမ့္ဆင္းသြားသည္။ At this point the path descends steeply. Compare ASCEND ၂။ ( fml ) (ည၊ အေမွာင္) က်ေရာက္သည္။ Night descends quickly in the tropics. ❏ be descended from sb [ PHRV ] မ်ဳိး႐ိုးမွလာသည္၊ ဆင္းသက္သည္။ She is descended from royalty, on her mother's side of the family. ❏ descendant /-ǝnt/ n ဆင္းသက္လာသူ။ သားေျမးစဥ္ဆက္။ She claims to be a direct descendant of Napoleon. Compare ANCESTOR ၁ ❏ descend on/upon sb/sth [ PHRV ] ဧည့္သည္မ်ား မထင္ မွတ္ဘဲ ျဗဳန္းစားႀကီး ေရာက္လာသည္။ My sister's family is descending on us this weekend. ❍ In summer tourists descend on the place in their thousands. ❏ descend to sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) အဆင့္အတန္း ႏွင့္မတန္ေအာင္ ေအာက္တန္းက်စြာ ျပဳမူေျပာဆိုသည္။ He wouldn't descend to that sort of trick.

Examples

1. I descended into the valley.
2. He slowly descended the stairs.
3. The plane was preparing to descend.
4. From here the path descends steeply.
5. At 6.30 pm the tropical darkness descends.
6. Total silence descended.