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Ascend Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Ascend? [v] travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [v] come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [v] slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill" [v] go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware" [v] become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death" [v] go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Ascend: go up Related Terms \| Find terms related to Ascend: advance \| arise \| aspire \| back \| back up \| bank \| budge \| buss the clouds \| cant \| careen \| chandelle \| change \| change place \| circle \| clamber \| climb \| come up \| crest \| curl upwards \| decline \| descend \| dip \| drop \| ebb \| escalade \| escalate \| fall \| fall away \| fall off \| float \| flow \| gain altitude \| get over \| get up \| go \| go around \| go downhill \| go round \| go sideways \| go up \| go uphill \| grade \| grow up \| gyrate \| hoick \| incline \| keel \| lean \| levitate \| lift \| list \| loom \| mount \| move \| move over \| pitch \| plunge \| progress \| rake \| rear \| rear up \| regress \| retreat \| retrogress \| rise \| rise up \| rotate \| run \| scale \| scale the heights \| scramble \| shelve \| shift \| shin \| sidle \| sink \| slant \| slope \| soar \| spin \| spiral \| spire \| stand on tiptoe \| stand up \| stir \| stream \| subside \| surge \| surmount \| swag \| swarm up \| sway \| sweep up \| tilt \| tip \| top \| tower \| travel \| up \| upclimb \| upgo \| upgrow \| upheave \| uprear \| uprise \| upspin \| upstream \| upsurge \| upswarm \| upwind \| wane \| whirl \| zoom See Also \| accede to \| arise \| come up \| date back \| date from \| enter upon \| follow \| go \| go back \| incline \| lift \| locomote \| move \| move up \| pitch \| rise \| rise up \| slope \| surface \| travel \| travel along \| uprise Ascend In Webster's Dictionary \Ascend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.] 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}. Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison. 2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor. Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower. \Ascend"\, v. t. To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Ascend Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ascend?

[v] travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
[v] come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
[v] slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
[v] go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
[v] become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
[v] go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ascend: go up

Ascend In Webster's Dictionary

\As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See {Scan}.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
   {descend}.

         Higher yet that star ascends.         --Bowring.

         I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
                                               17.

Note: Formerly used with up.

            The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.

2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
   inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
   from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
   times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
   inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
   our first progenitor.

Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.


\As*cend"\, v. t.
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go
up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a
river, a throne.

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