Ascend

Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (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.

Compare ascend with other words:

ascend vs. assent

ascend vs. consent

ascend vs. raise

accend vs. ascend

ascend vs. highering

ascend vs. ascendable

ascend vs. smokejack

ascend vs. uprun

ascend vs. upsend

ascend vs. grow

ascend vs. elevate

ascend vs. content

ascend vs. mobile

aloft vs. ascend

arise vs. ascend

ascend vs. scale

ascend vs. reascend

ascend vs. increase

ascend vs. boost

ascend vs. scramble

ascend vs. plummet

ascend vs. transcend

ascend vs. ascension

ascend vs. ascending

ascend vs. ascendency

ascend vs. ascendancy

ascend vs. ascendant

ascend vs. ascendance

ascend vs. ascent

ascend vs. descend

ascend vs. succeed

ascend vs. slope

ascend vs. soar

ascend vs. upward

ascend vs. climax

ascend vs. climbing

ascend vs. mount

ascend vs. twine

ascend vs. sty

ascend vs. remount

ascend vs. rise

ascend vs. climb

ascend vs. fly

amount vs. ascend

ascend vs. fall