Ascend \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.
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Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
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I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.
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Note: Formerly used with up.
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The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
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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.
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Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ascend \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ascend
v 1: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder";
"The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn:
go up] [ant: descend]
2: go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance
may not ascend linearly"
3: become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the
King's death"
4: go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the
Delaware"
5: slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
6: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun
uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
[syn: rise, come up, uprise] [ant: set]
WordNet (r) 2.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
come up, go up, rise, uprise
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