verb

• (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
• (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
• (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
• (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
• (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
• To be derived (from)
• To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
• (intransitive, astronomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of