Thesaurus: ascend

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1. v. i. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. v. travel up
5. v. go back in order of genealogical succession
6. v. become king or queen
7. v. go along towards (a river's) source
8. v. slope upwards
9. v. come up, of celestial bodies
10. v. move to a better position in life or to a better job
11. v. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
12. 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: 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. 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.