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Definition of Ascend

1. Verb. Travel up,. "The airplane is sure to ascend "; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

2. Verb. Go back in order of genealogical succession. "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

3. Verb. Become king or queen. "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

4. Verb. Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils. "The vine climbed up the side of the house"

5. Verb. Go along towards (a river's) source. "The boat ascended the Delaware"

6. Verb. Slope upwards. "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

7. Verb. Come up, of celestial bodies. "The moon will soon ascend "; "Jupiter ascends"

8. Verb. Move to a better position in life or to a better job. "Sam and Sue ascend"; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great"

Definition of Ascend

1. v. i. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

2. 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.

Definition of Ascend

1. Verb. (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To go up. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To succeed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ascend

1. to go or move upward [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Ascend

1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascend

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ascaron ascaroside ascarosides ascarylose ascaunt ascend (current term) ascendable ascendance ascendances ascendancies

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Literary usage of Ascend

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"The main road continues to ascend to the NB via Landwasser,whence the ... It continues to ascend the broad valley of the Dreisam to (33/4 M.) Littenweiler ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"[231] CHAPTER II [IX] A Detachment from the Exploring Party ascend the Arkansa to the Mountains — Bell's Springs — Descent of the Arkansa — Grizzly Bear. ..."

3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"NO. xxix. ascend, but the faculty or power; because the im- «piy- ... By this definition, a stone hath liberty to ascend into the air, because there is no ..."

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