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 ascend


Verb
  • move to a better position in life or to a better job
    • She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
  • come up, of celestial bodies
    • The sun also rises
    • The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
    • Jupiter ascends
  • slope upwards
    • The path ascended to the top of the hill
  • go along towards (a river's) source
    • The boat ascended the Delaware
  • appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
    • the vine climbed up the side of the house
  • become king or queen
    • She ascended to the throne after the King's death
  • go back in order of genealogical succession
    • Inheritance may not ascend linearly
  • travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
    • go up a ladder
    • The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
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