Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

306. [Motion downwards] Descent — N. descent, descension†, declension,

declination; fall; falling &c v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute†; titubation†, 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†, 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†, decursive†; labent†, deciduous; nodding to its fall. Adv. downhill, downwards. Phr. the bottom fell out.