Difference between Descend and Fall

What is the difference between Descend and Fall?

Descend as a verb is 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 while Fall as a verb is to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

Descend

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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 To enter mentally; to retire. [Poetic] To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. 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. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered. 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. To move toward the south, or to the southward. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone. 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.

Example sentence: The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Fall

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.Autumn.A loss of greatness or status.The action of a batsman being out.A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given directionBlame; punishmentSee falls

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.To come down, to drop or descend.To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.To be brought to the ground.To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.To die, especially in battle.To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .To become.To cause something to descend to the ground; especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down.

Example sentence: If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

We hope you now know whether to use Descend or Fall in your sentence.

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