ascend
ascend is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
- intransitive 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.
- transitive 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.
- verb. travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
"go up a ladder"
"The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
- verb. move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- verb. come up, of celestial bodies
"The sun also rises"
"The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."
- verb. slope upwards
"The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- verb. go along towards (a river's) source
"The boat ascended the Delaware"
- verb. appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
"the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- verb. become king or queen
"She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- verb. go back in order of genealogical succession
"Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ascend:
Common word forms
ascends, ascended, ascender, ascending, ascendable
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