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redescend

verb

Etymology

From re- + descend.

  1. derived from *skend-✻ — “to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”
  2. derived from dēscendere
  3. derived from descendere
  4. derived from descendere
  5. inherited from descenden — “to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”
  6. prefixed as redescend — “re + descend”

Definitions

  1. To descend again (often following an ascent)

    • […] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;

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