ascend

ascend has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

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