#306. [Motion downwards] Descent. —­ N. descent, descension[obs3],
declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.:  slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute[obs3]; titubation[obs3], stumble; fate of Icarus.
     avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
     declivity, dip, hill.
     [equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel. 
     V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop,
slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.
     dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c. 308; fall
prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.
     tumble, trip, stumble, titubate[obs3], lurch, pitch, swag, topple,
topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper. 
     Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent[obs3], decursive[obs3];
labent[obs3], deciduous; nodding to its fall. 
     Adv. downhill, downwards. 
     Phr. the bottom fell out.

     #307.  Elevation. —­ N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift;
sublevation[obs3], upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c. (convexity) 250.
     lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge,
dredger, dredging machine.
     dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift. 
     V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up,
perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear[obs3], upcast[obs3], uphoist[obs3], upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
     [ref] escalate (increase) 35, 102, 194.
     take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
     stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one’s feet; hold
oneself, hold one’s head up; drawn oneself up to his full height. 
     Adj. elevated &c. v.; stilted, attollent[obs3], rampant. 
     Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one’s legs, on one’s hind
legs.

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     #308.  Depression. —­ N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.
(concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion[obs3]; reduction.
     overthrow, overset[obs3], overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,
precipitation.
     bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion[obs3], genuflection, kowtow,
obeisance, salaam. 
     V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a
peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude[obs3], pitch, precipitate.
     overthrow, overturn, overset[obs3]; upset, subvert, prostate, level,
fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground[obs3]; trample in the dust, pull about one’s ears.
     sit, sit down; couch,