About The Word Ascend
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Ascend
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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 \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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