'ascend' definitions:
Definition of 'ascend'
(from WordNet)
verb
Travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn: ascend, go up] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down]
verb
Go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
verb
Become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
verb
Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house" [syn: ascend, climb up]
verb
Go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
verb
Slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
verb
Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: rise, come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: go down, go under, set]
verb
Synonyms of 'ascend'
From: 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,
- descend,
- dip,
- drop,
- ebb,
- escalade,
- escalate,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- float,
- flow,
- gain altitude,
- get over,
- get up,
- go,
- go around,
- go downhill,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- go up,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- grow up,
- gyrate,
- hoick,
- incline,
- keel,
- lean,
- levitate,
- lift,
- list,
- loom,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- pitch,
- plunge,
- progress,
- rake,
- rear,
- rear up,
- regress,
- retreat,
- retrogress,
- rise,
- rise up,
- rotate,
- run,
- scale,
- scale the heights,
- scramble,
- shelve,
- shift,
- shin,
- sidle,
- sink,
- slant,
- slope,
- soar,
- spin,
- spiral,
- spire,
- stand on tiptoe,
- stand up,
- stir,
- stream,
- subside,
- surge,
- surmount,
- swag,
- swarm up,
- sway,
- sweep up,
- tilt,
- tip,
- top,
- tower,
- travel,
- up,
- upclimb,
- upgo,
- upgrow,
- upheave,
- uprear,
- uprise,
- upspin,
- upstream,
- upsurge,
- upswarm,
- upwind,
- wane,
- whirl,
- zoom