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Type Words
Synonyms go up
Type of travel, go, locomote, move
Has types surface, come up, uprise, rise up, rise
Derivation ascendant, ascender, ascension, ascensive, ascent, ascendable


We ascended the mountain.
The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope.
Type Words
Synonyms come up, rise, uprise
Type of uprise, arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise
Derivation ascendent, ascension


Jupiter ascends.
Type Words
Synonyms move up, rise
Type of change


She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown.
Type Words
Synonyms climb up
Type Words
Type of enter, accede
Derivation ascendancy


She ascended to the throne after the King's death.
Type Words
Type of follow, travel along


The boat ascended the Delaware.
Type Words
Type of date back, go back, date from


Inheritance may not ascend linearly.
Type Words
Type of incline, slope, pitch
Derivation ascendant, ascendent, ascender, ascensive, ascent


The path ascended to the top of the hill.

Examples of ascend

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They didn't ascend to their respective thrones until 1474 and 1479 respectively.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He was son of Zhu Changxun, his title was Prince Of Fu before ascend the throne.
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Therefore, there is doubt that Yinzhen changed the will to ascend to the throne.
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For every 1,000 feet you ascend, the atmospheric pressure decreases by about 4%.
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Today's owners had plenty of cash to spend but no thrones upon which to ascend.
From the forbes.com
Ascend the mountain too late in the day, and the town becomes engulfed in clouds.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For my final experience here I planned to ascend one of New Zealand's many peaks.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Lady Bears are only the second Big 12 team to ascend to No. 1, joining Texas.
From the post-gazette.com
McMahon really helped the BYU program ascend to national championship prominence.
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More examples
  • Travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
  • Go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
  • Become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
  • Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
  • Go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
  • Slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
  • ASCEND is a free, open source, mathematical modelling system developed at Carnegie Mellon University since the late 1980s . ASCEND is an acronym which stands for Advanced System for Computations in ENgineering Design. ...
  • Ascend may refer to: * Ascend (band) * Ascend (album), by Greg Howe * ASCEND, software * Ascend Communications
  • Ascend is the sixth studio album by guitarist Greg Howe, released in 1999 on Shrapnel Records. According to Howe, this is his least favourite album due in part to creative differences which arose with keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij, during the making of the latter's 1997 album, High Definition.