ascend
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English ascenden, from Latin ascendere (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
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ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
- The road ascends the mountain.
- (transitive) To go up.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- (transitive) To succeed.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
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[edit] Translations
to go up, to fly, to soar
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[edit] External links
- ascend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ascend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
