Found 3 items, similar to Ascend.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ascend
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ascend
ascend
v 1: travel up,
“We ascended the mountain”;
“go up a ladder”;
“The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope” [syn:
go up] [ant:
descend]
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”
[syn:
rise,
come up,
uprise] [ant:
set]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ascend
Ascend
\As*cend"\, v. t.
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go
up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a
river, a throne.
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Ascend
\As*cend"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Ascended; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Ascending.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb,
mount. See
Scan.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to
descend.
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Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
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I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx.
17.
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Note: Formerly used with up.
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The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
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2. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects,
from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient
times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our
inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to
our first progenitor.
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Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
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