Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To go or move upward; rise: synonym: rise.
- intransitive verb To slope upward.
- intransitive verb To rise from a lower level or station; advance.
- intransitive verb To go back in time or upward in genealogical succession.
- intransitive verb To move upward upon or along; climb.
- intransitive verb To slope upward toward or along.
- intransitive verb To succeed to; occupy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To move upward; mount; go up; rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object.
- To rise, in a figurative sense; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, etc.
- To slope upward.
- To go backward in the order of time; proceed from modern to ancient times: as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
- To rise, as a star; appear above the horizon.
- In music, to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to one more acute.
- To go or move upward upon; climb: as, to
ascend a hill or ladder; to ascend a tree. - To move upward along; go toward the source of: as, to
ascend a river. Synonyms
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
descend . - intransitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To move
upward , tofly , tosoar . - verb intransitive To
slope in an upward direction. - verb transitive To go up.
- verb transitive To
succeed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become king or queen
- verb come up, of celestial bodies
- verb go along towards (a river's) source
- verb travel up,
- verb go back in order of genealogical succession
- verb slope upwards
- verb move to a better position in life or to a better job
- verb appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have walked outside my hotel room every morning to watch as many as 78 (I lost count there) ascend from the field across the highway, and yesterday morning — the only morning I did not tote my camera — a balloon touched down in a small clearing behind the hotel, and they traded one passenger for another.
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I have walked outside my hotel room every morning to watch as many as 78 (I lost count there) ascend from the field across the highway, and yesterday morning — the only morning I did not tote my camera — a balloon touched down in a small clearing behind the hotel, and they traded one passenger for another.
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The whole point of ancient Greek philosophy was to ascend from the cave of ancient Greek nomos to physis, which is why Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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In April (2002) the trail was marked with white arrows painted on the rocks all the way to the top, it goes in a northwesterly direction around the mountain, the final ascend is from the west.
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The Teat with the antennas is open field to the top if you ascend from the north, the Teat to the north is more of a challenge, circle it to the east and climb it where the slope appears less steep.
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The Teat with the antennas is open field to the top if you ascend from the north, the Teat to the north is more of a challenge, circle it to the east and climb it where the slope appears less steep.
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In April (2002) the trail was marked with white arrows painted on the rocks all the way to the top, it goes in a northwesterly direction around the mountain, the final ascend is from the west.
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Because of this, the evolutionary process will continue; the human race will ascend from the pit of apathy and greed and overpopulation and disease, and become strong again.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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In few places is it out of one's power to ascend from a hot, burning plain to a delightful yeilāk, where one is revived by comparatively cool breezes.
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We went to Mexico yesterday to see a balloon ascend from the Plaza de Toros, with an aëronaut and his daughter; French people, I believe.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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