Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To ascend, mount, or climb again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To rise, mount, or climb again.
- transitive verb To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb
ascend again
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Examples
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When Cassandra stopped reading her story before the end, the audience protested and made her reascend to the podium to finish.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB » Blog Archive » Photos from the April 15th Reading 2009
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Too soon, we're back on the ground, exhilarated and longing to reascend.
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And a few weeks back in the Daily Telegraph, A.N. Wilson speculated that the primary value that will reascend is austerity.
Melissa Biggs Bradley: Why Being Nouveau Pauvre Cheers Britain 2008
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I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration.
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Isbister, feeling that his unsupported talk was losing vigour, suggested that they should reascend the steep and return towards
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He continued to listen, but the silence remaining undisturbed, he began to think he had been deceived by the singing of the wind among the leaves; and was preparing to reascend, when he perceived a faint light glimmer through the foliage from afar.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever reascend.
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At once I suspected that some accident compelled the submarine to reascend.
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good.
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And when later on, eager to discover a truth, we reascend from deduction to deduction, turning over our memory like a sheaf of written evidence, when we arrive at that sentence, at that gesture, which it is impossible to recall, we begin again a score of times the same process, but in vain: the road goes no farther.
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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