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English Dictionary: ascend	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ascend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ascend v travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" Synonym(s): ascend, go up Antonym(s): come down, descend, fall, go down go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death" appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house" Synonym(s): ascend, climb up go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware" slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill" come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" Synonym(s): rise, come up, uprise, ascend Antonym(s): go down, go under, set move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great Synonym(s): ascend, move up, rise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascend \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ascend \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.