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Ascend

//əˈsɛnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To move upward, to fly, to soar. intransitive

    "He ascended to heaven upon a cloud."

  2. 2
    go upward with gradual or continuous progress wordnet
  3. 3
    To slope in an upward direction. intransitive
  4. 4
    travel up wordnet
  5. 5
    To go up. transitive

    "You ascend the stairs and take a right."

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  1. 6
    move to a better position in life or to a better job wordnet
  2. 7
    To succeed a ruler on (the throne). ambitransitive

    "She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated."

  3. 8
    come up, of celestial bodies wordnet
  4. 9
    To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. figuratively, intransitive
  5. 10
    slope upwards wordnet
  6. 11
    To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

    "Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity."

  7. 12
    go along towards (a river's) source wordnet
  8. 13
    To become higher in pitch. transitive
  9. 14
    become king or queen wordnet
  10. 15
    To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.

    "Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement."

  11. 16
    go back in order of genealogical succession wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

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