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ascend

verb

1 ascend

Travel up:
— We ascended the mountain.
— The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope.

synonym: go up.

Roget 658: improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.    advance etc. (progress) 282; ascend etc. 305; increase ... show more

Roget 267: sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, ... show more

Roget 31: be great etc. adj.; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.    enlarge etc. ... show more

2 ascend

Go back in order of genealogical succession.

3 ascend

Become king or queen.

4 ascend

Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils.

synonym: climb up.

Dutch: stijgen

5 ascend

Go along towards (a river's) source.

6 ascend

Slope upwards.

7 ascend

Come up, of celestial bodies:
— Jupiter ascends.

synonyms: come up, rise, uprise.

Roget 305: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.    ... show more

Roget 35: increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate etc. (expand) 194; grow, wax, get ahead.    gain strength; advance; run up, ... show more

8 ascend

Move to a better position in life or to a better job:
— She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown.

synonyms: move up, rise.


Moby thesaurus: advance, arise, aspire, back, back up, bank, budge, buss the clouds, cant, careen, chandelle, change, change place, circle, clamber, climb, come up, crest, curl upwards, decline ... show more.

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