ascend
v.
climb, go up; rise up
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Verb
1. travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
(synonym) go up
(antonym) descend, fall, go down, come down
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) surface, come up, rise up, rise
(derivation) rise, rising, ascent, ascension
2. go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
(hypernym) go back, date back, date from
3. become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
(hypernym) accede, enter
(derivation) dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
4. go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
(hypernym) follow, travel along
5. slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
(hypernym) slope, incline, pitch
(derivation) ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade
6. come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
(synonym) rise, come up, uprise
(hypernym) rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
(derivation) ascension
(classification) astronomy, uranology
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.
(v. i.)
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.
(v. i.)
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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