The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.
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Ascend
//əˈsɛnd//
Synonyms for "ascend" (129 found)
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22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
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2 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesmanner of
5 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
127 translations across 66 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- hip verb (to fly, to soar)
- hyp verb (to go up)
- ngjit verb (to slope in an upward direction)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀναβαίνω verb (to go up)
Arabic
3 entries- صَعِد verb (to go up)
- طلع verb (to fly, to soar)
- طلع verb (to go up)
Armenian
2 entries- բարձրանալ verb (to fly, to soar)
- ելնել verb (to fly, to soar)
Basque
1 entries- igo verb (to fly, to soar)
Bulgarian
3 entries- изгрявам verb (to fly, to soar)
- издигам се verb (to go up)
- изкачвам се verb (to fly, to soar)
Burmese
2 entries- တက် verb (to fly, to soar)
- တက် verb (to go up)
Catalan
1 entries- ascendir verb (to fly, to soar)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 登 verb (to fly, to soar)
Czech
1 entries- stoupat verb (to fly, to soar)
Danish
1 entries- stige verb (to fly, to soar)
Dutch
4 entries- opgaan verb (to fly, to soar)
- opstijgen verb (to go up)
- opvaren verb (to fly, to soar)
- stijgen verb (to fly, to soar)
Egyptian
1 entries- i-a:r-O41 verb (to go up)
Esperanto
4 entries- alsupri verb (to slope in an upward direction)
- alsupri verb (to go up)
- plialtiĝi verb (to fly, to soar)
- supreniri verb (to fly, to soar)
Evenki
1 entries- угиривми verb (to go up)
Finnish
4 entries- kohota verb (to fly, to soar)
- mennä ylös verb (to go up)
- nousta verb (to fly, to soar)
- nousta verb (to slope in an upward direction)
French
1 entries- monter verb (to fly, to soar)
Galician
1 entries- ascender verb (to fly, to soar)
Georgian
1 entries- ასვლა verb (to go up)
German
2 entries- aufsteigen verb (to fly, to soar)
- steigen verb (to fly, to soar)
Gheg Albanian
1 entries- dal verb (to slope in an upward direction)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 verb (to go up)
Greek
3 entries- ανεβαίνω verb (to fly, to soar)
- ανεβαίνω verb (to go up)
- ανεβαίνω verb (to succeed)
Hebrew
1 entries- עלה verb (to fly, to soar)
Hindi
1 entries- चढ़ना verb (to fly, to soar)
Hungarian
4 entries- emelkedik verb (to go up)
- felemelkedik verb (to fly, to soar)
- felemelkedik verb (to go up)
- felmegy verb (to fly, to soar)
Ido
1 entries- acensar verb (to fly, to soar)
Indonesian
1 entries- naik verb (to go up)
Interlingua
1 entries- ascender verb (to fly, to soar)
Irish
3 entries- ardaigh verb (to slope in an upward direction)
- ardaigh verb (to go up)
- tóg verb (to fly, to soar)
Italian
3 entries- riuscire verb (to succeed)
- salire verb (to fly, to soar)
- salire verb (to go up)
Japanese
1 entries- 登る verb (to fly, to soar)
Javanese
2 entries- mundhak verb (to go up)
- munggah verb (to go up)
Kashmiri
1 entries- کھَسُن verb (to fly, to soar)
Khmer
1 entries- ឡើង verb (to fly, to soar)
Korean
2 entries- 비상하다 verb (to fly, to soar)
- 올라가다 verb (to fly, to soar)
Lao
2 entries- ຂຶ້ນ verb (to fly, to soar)
- ຂຶ້ນ verb (to go up)
Literary Chinese
1 entries- 躋 verb (to fly, to soar)
Low German
1 entries- stiegen verb (to fly, to soar)
Malay
1 entries- naik verb (to go up)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠸᡝᠰᡳᠮᠪᡳ verb (to go up)
Marathi
1 entries- वर जाणे verb (to go up)
Mongolian
1 entries- авирах verb (to go up)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tlehco verb (to go up)
Old English
1 entries- stīgan verb (to fly, to soar)
Old Javanese
2 entries- nek verb (to go up)
- uṇḍa verb (to go up)
Persian
1 entries- فرازیدن verb (to fly, to soar)
Portuguese
4 entries- ascender verb (to fly, to soar)
- ascender verb (to succeed)
- subir verb (to fly, to soar)
- subir verb (to slope in an upward direction)
Quechua
1 entries- wichay verb (to go up)
Romanian
4 entries- sui verb (to go up)
- urca verb (to fly, to soar)
- urca verb (to go up)
- înălța verb (to fly, to soar)
Russian
3 entries- взбира́ться verb (to fly, to soar)
- всходи́ть verb (to fly, to soar)
- поднима́ться verb (to fly, to soar)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- penjati verb (to fly, to soar)
- popeti verb (to fly, to soar)
Sindhi
1 entries- چڙھڻ verb (to go up)
Slovak
1 entries- stúpať verb (to fly, to soar)
Spanish
4 entries- ascender verb (to fly, to soar)
- ascender verb (to slope in an upward direction)
- ascender verb (to go up)
- ascender verb (to succeed)
Swahili
1 entries- kupanda verb (to fly, to soar)
Swedish
3 entries- gå upp verb (to fly, to soar)
- stiga verb (to go up)
- stiga (upp) verb (to fly, to soar)
Tagalog
1 entries- akyatin verb (to go up)
Thai
2 entries- ขึ้น verb (to fly, to soar)
- ขึ้น verb (to go up)
Tocharian B
2 entries- ränk verb (to fly, to soar)
- ränk verb (to go up)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎓𐎍𐎊 verb (to go up)
Ukrainian
3 entries- підня́тися verb (to go up)
- підніма́тися verb (to go up)
- підійма́тися verb (to go up)
Uzbek
1 entries- yuksalmoq verb (to go up)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lên verb (to fly, to soar)
- lên verb (to go up)
West-Frisian
1 entries- stige verb (to fly, to soar)
Zhuang
1 entries- hwnj verb (to fly, to soar)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
I start from sleep, the parapet ascend, / and from the sloping roof with eager ears attend.
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Phaeacia's heights with the horizon blend; / we skim Epirus, and Chaonia's bay / enter, and to Buthrotum's town ascend.
Source: tatoeba (7036774)
He was going to ascend to the throne.
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