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Difference between Descend on someone and Descend to someone

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descend on someone—

1. arrive suddenly to stay with smb.:

  • The whole family descends on us every Christmas.

2. attack a person suddenly:

  • Thieves descended on the travelers while they slept.

descend to someone—pass to a person after smb.’s death:

  • The property descended to the man’s eldest son.