What do you think the word "condescend" means? Go down? Or go with her? Or get down? One thing is obvious. "Condescend" is a verb, since this word answers the question "what to do?". Moreover, the verb is intransitive and imperfective. It also applies to the second conjugation.
Lexical meaning
Condescend is:
- Go down, get down.
- Show mercy, show mercy.
- Embrace, possess someone.
Condescend: synonyms
So that speech is not replete with multiple repetitions, words sometimes have to be replaced with synonyms. Synonyms for the verb "condescend":
- Descending: A huge orange sun slowly dipped below the horizon.
- Sink down: I try not to stoop to that level, it's humiliating.
- Possess: Arthur was overcome by such impotence that he sank down on the grass in despair and wept bitterly.
- Indulge: Stop indulging this nonsense, Elena is no longer a child!
- Embrace: Cinderella enteredsparkling ballroom, and it was a real childish delight.
- Favour: Queen Victoria has always favored musicians and artists.
7 sentences with the verb "condescend"
Features of the use of any word are best studied in the context of sentences:
- I have never condescended and will never condescend to such petty people as Andrey Nikolaevich Vorontsov.
- We all condescend to each other sometimes, even though we don't want to be or appear arrogant.
- You, like the goddess of love, descended into my dull life from a beautiful dream.
- Alexander, leave me at last. You will always only condescend to me.
- It is here, in this God-blessed place, that peace descends upon me.
- Isabella of Castile will not love this poor boy. She will always only condescend to him from the height of her greatness.
- What a wonderful spring rain: raindrops with a melodic ringing descend from heaven to dry, starving earth.
