Ascend

Definition: Ascend

Ascend

Verb

1. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope".

2. Go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly".

3. Become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death".

4. Go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware".

5. Slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill".

6. Come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises": "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ascend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ascend

Ascent

Verb: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.

Government

Ascend the throne, mount the throne; take the reins, take the reins into one's hand; assume authority; Noun: assume the reins of government; take command, assume command.

Greatness

Verb: be great; Adjective: run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.

Improvement

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Increase

Verb: increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate; (expand); grow, wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout.

Navigation

Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Crosswords: Ascend

Man, just ascend already. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

No never ever will they ascend (Let there be more light; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• Ascend the hill, and other poems (reference)

• Ascend to Higher Levels (Deep Meditation) (reference)

• Ascend to your Father : an introduction to Marian meditation (reference)

• How To Ascend To The Fourth Dimension (reference)

• The diver's reluctance to ascend : short stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ascend Mt. Rainier (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ascend (reference)

• Ascend from the Cauldron (reference)

• Ascend to Love (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Century Breverra Ascend SE Toddler Booster Car Seat - Birdseye Black (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Figure 59. Hooke sounder devised by Robert Hooke, curator of experiments of the British Royal Society, also took up Cardinal Cusanus's idea. Like the preceding similar devices, the depth measured was obtained by comparison with the time required for the float to ascend from a known depth. This instrument was designed in 1663 and tested in 5 to 6 meters water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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From the floor ascend pillars of dark vapours.

It could readily ascend the sides of the room by short impulses, like a squirrel, which it resembled in its motions.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

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Economic History

Swaziland

Prince Makhosetive returned from school in England to ascend to the throne and help end the continuing internal disputes. (references)

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Expressions using "ascend": ascend the stairs ♦ ascend the throne ♦ ascend to ♦ ascend to the top of. Additional references.

Afrikaans

styg (accrue, advance, arise, climb, get, get up, go up, increase, lift, rise), opstaan (arise, get, get up, go up, lift, rise, stand, stand up), opgaan (climb, go up, tread, walk, walk upon), beklouter (climb, scale), beklim (climb, scale). (various references)

Albanian

ngrihem (get up, jump, overlook, proceed, raise, regelate, revolt, rise, stand, stand up, stand up to, take off, take wing, tower, turn out, upheave), ngjitem (adhere, climb, climb up, cling, come up, go up, knit, Mount, ride, scale, scramble, stick together, swarm up), lartësohem (arise, mount up, overlook, soar, tower), hipem. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طلع (acquaint, be acquainted with, be updated, brief, climb, go up, hip, inform, introduce, prime, rise, run down), ‏صعد (ascent, balloon, climb, embark, escalate, go up, manacle, rise, scale, sublimate, uphill), ‏إعتلى (mount, top), ‏إرتفع (advance, arise, aspire, climb, come in, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift), ‏رقى (commission, prefer, promote, raise, uplift). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изкачвам се (climb up, get up, go up, make the grade), извишавам се (rise), издигам се (advance, arise, arose, aspire, flow, go up, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower, uprise), датирам (date). (various references)

Chinese 

陟 (advance), 登高 (Ascended, Ascending), 登 (climb, go up, mount, note, register, scale, to issue, to publish, to record), 昇 (peaceful). (various references)

Czech

zlézt (climb up, scale), vystoupit na (climb up), stoupat (climb, go up, lose height, rise, run up, slope up). (various references)

Dutch

opstaan (arise, cook, get up, go up, lift, rise, stand, stand up), opkomen (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise), opgaan (arise, be valid, get up, go up, lift, rise, tread, walk, walk upon). (various references)

Esperanto

surgrimpi (climb, scale), supreniri (climb, go up), plialtiĝi (go up, increase), leviĝi (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Farsi 

فرازیدن , صعودکردن (Climb, Mount, Ramp, Rise, Soar, Up), جلوس کردن بر, بلندشدن (Arise, Mount, Rise, Upheave, Uprear), بالارفتن (Aspire, Boost, Climb, Lift, Soar, Up). (various references)

Finnish

astua johonkin (enter, step into), kohota (advance, be promoted, climb, go up, increase, rise). (various references)

French

monter (assemble). (various references)

Frisian

stige (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise), bekliuwe (climb, scale), bekladderje (climb, scale). (various references)

German

steigen (arise, climb, flow, get up, go up, increase, lift, Mount, move up, put up, rear, rise, rising, soar, step, stiles, to be on the increase), hinaufsteigen (climb up, get up, Mount, soar up, to ascend, to climb up, to soar up), aufsteigen (ascension, be promoted, bubble up, climb, climb up, fume, gather, get on, go up, jump on, Mount, move up, raise, rise, rise up, soar, soar up, to arise, to arise (arose, to ascend, to mount, to soar, tower). (various references)

Greek 

αναβαίνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעלות (advance, climb, florish, go up, grow, rise, uphill), לטפס (climb, creep, scale, shin, swarm up), ל� סוק (climb, rise). (various references)

Hungarian

felszáll (get on, go up, lift, lift off, soar, take off, take to, to ascend, to board, to clear away, to get off the ground, to hop off, to lift off, to puff up, to shoot up, to soar, to take to the air), felemelkedik (lift off, rise, to ascend, to emerge, to lift, to lift off, to mount, to rear oneself up, to up, uprise). (various references)

Indonesian

naik (aboard, accede, increasing, rising, up), mendaki (mount, see: daki), daki (climb, grime, mount, skin-dirt). (various references)

Italian

salire (advance, arise, climb, come up, flood, get, get on, get up, go, go up, lift, Mount, ride up, rise, to go up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

昇る (to arise, to ascend, to go up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のぼる (to add up to, to advance, to arise, to ascend, to be promoted, to climb, to come up, to go to, to go up, to rise, to sail up). (various references)

Korean 

올라가십시�". (various references)

Manx

drappal (ascent, clamber, climb, escalade, mount, scale, trail, trail of plant), cheet neese (come up). (various references)

Papiamen

subi (climb, go up, lever, lift, raise). (various references)

Pig Latin

ascenday

Polish

iść w górę. (various references)

Portuguese

subir (accrue, advance, aspire, climb, come up, go up, heighten, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, scramble, steepen, up, uprise), ascender (rise, uprise). (various references)

Romanian

urca (bestride, go up, grow, heave, lift, Mount, rise, scale, soar, swell, uplift), se urca (heave, Mount, perch on, rise), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, cock, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), råsåri (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise), merge în sus. (various references)

Russian 

подниматься (climb, come up for air, get up, lift, picked up, raise, rise, risen, run up to, swell, up, upheave). (various references)

Scottish

dìr (as opposed to, ascend in a straight direction), éirich (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

penjati se (climb up). (various references)

Spanish

ascender (add up to, advance, climb, come to, elevate, prefer, promote, rise, scale, total), subir a (accede, board, climb, come up to, get into, get on, hop on, scale), subir (advance, arise, bump up, carry up, climb, come up, get into, get up, go up, lift, move up, raise, rise, step up, take up, upload, walk up), escalar (break in, burglarize, climb, escalade, escalate, scalar, scale). (various references)

Swedish

bestiga (climb, Mount, scale). (various references)

Tagalog

umáakyát (climb, go up). (various references)

Thai

เคลื่อนที่ไปยัง, รับตำแหน่ง, ปีน (climb, scramble), ขึ้น (ascendant, ascending). (various references)

Turkish

artmak (accrete, accrue, advance, augment, be left, be left over, deepen, duplicate, go up, harden, heighten, increase, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), yukarı çıkmak (climb up, move up), yükselmek (arise, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, climb, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, go up, harden, heighten, improve, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, upsurge, work one's way up), tırmanmak (clamber, climb, cling, entwine, intwine, scale, shin, shinny, soar, swarm, swarm up), pesten tize geçmek, çıkmak (break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

сходити на, сходити (alight, arise, descend, dismount, get off, get up, rise, slough off, swarm up, uprise, walk down), набирати висоту, підніматися (climb, jump, lift, surge, walk up, well), підноситися (aspire, shoot up, soar), просуватися (advance, better oneself, carry forward, corkscrew, get on, go forward, set on). (various references)

Welsh

asgennu, ymddyrchafu (exalt oneself, rise), esgyn (rise), dyrchafu (advance, elevate, raise, rise), dyrchafael (ascension, rise), dringo (climb). (various references)

Yucatec

liik'il (arise, get up, go up, lift, rise). (various references)

Zulu

-enyuka (climb, go up). (various references)

ascendam, ascendamus, ascendant, ascendas, ascendat, ascendatis, ascende, ascendebamus, ascendebant, ascendebantque, ascendebantur, ascendebat, ascendebatur, ascendemus, ascendens, ascendensque, ascendent, ascendente, ascendentem, ascendentes, ascendentesque, ascendentibus, ascenderant, ascenderantque, ascenderat, ascendere, ascenderent, ascenderet, ascenderint, ascenderit, ascenderitis, ascendero, ascenderunt, ascenderuntque, ascendes, ascendesque, ascendet, ascendetis, ascendi, ascendimus, ascendisse, ascendissemus, ascendissent, ascendisset, ascendisti, ascendistis, ascendit, ascendite, ascenditis, ascenditque, ascendo, ascendunt, ascensis, ascensu, ascensum, ascensura, ascensuri, ascensurus, ascensus, conscendam, conscendens, conscendent, conscendere, conscenderit, conscenderunt, conscendite, crescamus, crescant, crescas, crescat, crescatis, cresce, crescebant, crescebat, crescebatque, crescens, crescent, crescente, crescentem, crescentes, crescentis, crescere, cresceret, crescet, crescit, crescite, crescunt, creta, cretae, creverant, creverat, creverit, creveritis, creverunt, crevisse, crevisset, crevit, crevitque, scandens, supercrescit. (various references)

astigan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ascend": ascendable, ascendance, ascendances, ascendancies, ascendancy, ascendant, ascendantly, ascendants, ascended, ascendence, ascendences, ascendencies, ascendency, ascendent, ascendents, ascender, ascenders, ascendible, ascending, ascends. (additional references)

Words ending with "ascend": reascend. (additional references)

Words containing "ascend": reascended, reascending, reascends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ascend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abscend, acend, Adscene, Agscene, ascain, asceed, ascern, Ascon, Ascona, asecond, asend, Ashend, asken, aspend, Asscn, assem, Azienda, Azucena, Iascone, Pascendi, tacendo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dances.

-1 letter: acned, acnes, cades, caned, canes, cased, daces, dance, deans, saned, scena, scend, sedan.

-2 letters: aced, aces, acne, ands, anes, cade, cads, cane, cans, case, dace, dean, dens, ends, sade, sand, sane, scad, scan, send, sned.

-3 letters: ace, ads, and, ane, cad, can, den, eds, end, ens, nae, sac, sad, sae, sea, sec, sen.

+1 letter: acnodes, ascends, calends, candies, candles, dancers, deacons, decanes, decants, descant, encased, incased, scanned, scanted, snacked, uncased.

+2 letters: abducens, acidness, advances, ascended, ascender, cadences, cadenzas, candelas, candlers, canvased, celadons, cleansed, codeinas, cyanides, cyanosed, decagons, descants, diocesan, distance, durances, echidnas, encashed, enchased, endocast, endosarc, faciends, pandects, reascend, scandent, sciaenid, snatched, stanched, tacnodes, uncashed, uncasked, uncaused, unscaled, vendaces.

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