"descend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

descend verbo

descend + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 7
descend the stairs • descend the steps • descend the staircase • descend several feet • descend the ladder • ...
verbo + descend
Kolokacji: 3
begin to descend • begin descending • start descending
descend + preposición
Kolokacji: 39
descend from • descend into • descend on • descend upon • descend through • ...
descend + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 39
slowly descend • descend directly • quickly descend • descend rapidly • gradually descend • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(3) gradually, suddenly, sharply
Kolokacji: 3
(7) finally, eventually, mainly
Kolokacji: 3
1. finally descend = w końcu zejdź finally descend
2. eventually descend = ostatecznie zejdź eventually descend
3. mainly descended = głównie zejść mainly descended
  • British people are descended mainly from the varied ethnic stocks that settled in Great Britain before the eleventh century.
  • They are mainly descended from those Catholics who fled the persecution and roundup by Tipu Sultan.
  • History of the Gan language is mainly descended from Old Gan and Middle Gan.
  • The current Korean population in China is mainly descended from migrants who came between 1860 and 1945.
  • According to a DNA analysis, he is descended mainly, from people of Ghana.
  • Modern Vietnamese in Cambodia are mainly descended from settlers who immigrated in the early 20th century.
  • However, he reports, the Xanthians of his time were mainly descended from non-Xanthians.
  • The population of Iceland in fact is descended mainly from Norse men and kidnapped Irish women.
  • Descended mainly from Icelandic and Faroes sheep transported to Greenland in the early 20th century.
  • According to a DNA analysis, Franklin was descended mainly from people of Sierra Leone.
(8) carefully, cautiously
Kolokacji: 2
(9) swiftly, hastily
Kolokacji: 2
(10) steadily, regularly
Kolokacji: 2

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