Decrease and Descend

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way.
  • usage: "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
  • synonyms: fall, go down, come down
• Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.
  • usage: "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
  • synonyms: derive, come
• Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
  • synonyms: condescend, deign
• Come as if by falling.
  • usage: "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
  • synonyms: fall, settle

• (v.i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
• (v.i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
• (v.i.) To come down, as from a source, original or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
• (v.t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
• (v.i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• (v.i.) To make an attack or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
• (v.i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
• (v.i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
• (v.i.) To move toward the south or to the southward.