Is there a verb for slowly descending? For example, when a snowflake is slowly descending from the sky, is there a verb we can use instead?
There are a couple of possibilities. Both are from Merriam-Webster.
1 a : to become driven or carried along (as by a current of water, wind, or air)
// a balloon drifting in the wind
2 b : to move or float smoothly and effortlessly
So:
The snowflake drifted down.
2 a : to sink gradually or to the bottom
So:
The snowflake settled to the ground.
answered May 26 at 4:41
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@JackO'Flaherty I wouldn't use filtered to talk about a falling snowflake though. Only some kind of liquid and for smaller distances. – Jason Bassford May 26 at 12:46
