descent
keturunan
definition
noun
the plane had gone into a steep descent
an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.
American families of Hungarian descent
the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
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However, the 'descent' into savagery is opposed by many of the children, recognising it as a construct imposed from above by adults.
It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a 'descent' into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities.
It is the steepest 'descent' on the course, and runs for nearly 2 miles.
Eventually with the sun fading and the wind rising we found a steep 'descent' down to pale limestone and black rabbits, and back at the campsite lots more tents.
Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal 'descent' from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes.
The results are a partial empirical accounting of the ideological developments accompanying the 'descent' into civil war.
Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep 'descent' to the old bridge.
Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American 'descent' .
A sudden 'descent' by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes.
Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common 'descent' and parentage.
I knew I could get the better of him on the 'descent' even though I fell a number of times.
The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this 'descent' into moral turpitude.
It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final 'descent' and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees.
After the steepest 'descent' I have ever ridden to this day, it was a short ride up the valley to the lodge where hot dinner was waiting.
The track rolled down a steep 'descent' and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate.
This 'descent' into enmity is not just one party's fault.
a 'descent' on the Channel ports
From there a steep 'descent' north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.
It reminded me of the 'descent' into cynicism about politics that I still haven't completely shaken.
The result has been an unintended 'descent' into confusion.
The outcome will be a sexual identity free-for-all, and a further 'descent' into a moral vacuum.
Then began the slow cold 'descent' into darkness.
the plane had gone into a steep 'descent'
Miranda's claims of innocence are seen by her friends, colleagues and former patients as the beginnings of a deep 'descent' into madness.
The only alternative to denying responsibility appears to be a complete loss of control - a 'descent' into chaos.
the settlers were of Cornish 'descent'
The two climbers, then in their 20s, did reach the summit, but after a fall on the 'descent' , Thomas suffered a severe leg injury.
After a quick tour of the mine facilities, the party re-boarded the little train, sans locomotive, for the 'descent' was to be made by gravity.
An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by 'descent' or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties.
Carefully, she started a gradual, painstaking 'descent' to the frothing ocean below.
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