The difference between Descend and Rise
When used as verbs, descend means to pass from a higher to a lower place, whereas rise means to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. to move upwards. to grow upward.
Rise is also noun with the meaning: the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
check bellow for the other definitions of Descend and Rise
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Descend as a verb (intransitive):
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
Examples:
"The rain descended, and the floods came."
"We will here descend to matters of later date.'' rfdatek Fuller"
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Descend as a verb (intransitive, poetic):
To enter mentally; to retire.
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Descend as a verb (intransitive, with {{m, on):
or }} To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
Examples:
"And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.'' rfdatek Alexander Pope"
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Descend as a verb (intransitive):
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself
Examples:
"he descended from his high estate"
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Descend as a verb (intransitive):
To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
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Descend as a verb (intransitive):
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.
Examples:
"The beggar may descend from a prince."
"A crown descends to the heir."
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Descend as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
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Descend as a verb (intransitive, music):
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
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Descend as a verb (transitive):
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
Examples:
"they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"
"But never tears his cheek descended.'' rfdatek Byron"
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Rise as a verb (intransitive):
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. To move upwards. To grow upward; to attain a certain height. To slope upward. To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. To become erect; to assume an upright position. To leave one's bed; to get up. To be resurrected. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
Examples:
"We watched the balloon rise."
"This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet."
"The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill."
"The sun was rising in the East."
"to rise from a chair or from a fall"
"he rose from the grave; he is risen!"
"The committee rose after agreeing to the report."
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Rise as a verb (intransitive):
To increase in value or standing. To attain a higher status. Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
Examples:
"to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest."
"to rise a tone or semitone"
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Rise as a verb (of a river):
To begin; to develop. To develop. To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. To have its source (in a particular place). To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
Examples:
"Has that dough risen yet?"
"a noise rose on the air; odour rises from the flower"
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Rise as a verb (transitive):
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
Examples:
"to rise a hill"
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Rise as a verb (transitive):
To cause to go up or ascend.
Examples:
"to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water"
"to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it"
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Rise as a verb (obsolete):
To retire; to give up a siege.
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Rise as a verb:
To come; to offer itself.
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Rise as a verb (printing, dated):
To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
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Rise as a noun:
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
Examples:
"The rise of the tide."
"There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday."
"Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure."
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Rise as a noun:
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
Examples:
"The rise of the working class."
"The rise of the printing press."
"The rise of the feminists."
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Rise as a noun (chiefly, UK):
An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
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Rise as a noun:
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
Examples:
"The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed."
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Rise as a noun (UK, Ireland, Australia):
An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
Examples:
"The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six."
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Rise as a noun (Sussex):
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
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Rise as a noun:
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
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Rise as a noun (informal):
An angry reaction.
Examples:
"I knew that would get a rise out of him."
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Rise as a noun: