ascend

Definitions

1. 1intransitive verb

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

2. 2intransitive verb

   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.

3. 3transitive verb

   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.

4. 4verb

   travel up, "We ascended the mountain"

   "go up a ladder"

   "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

5. 5verb

   move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great

   Synonyms

   rise
6. 6verb

   come up, of celestial bodies

   "The sun also rises"

   "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."

   Synonyms

   riseuprise
7. 7verb

   slope upwards

   "The path ascended to the top of the hill"

8. 8verb

   go along towards (a river's) source

   "The boat ascended the Delaware"

9. 9verb

   appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

   "the vine climbed up the side of the house"

10. 10verb

    become king or queen

    "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

11. 11verb

    go back in order of genealogical succession

    "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"