Ascend

Quick meaning: Ascend is a verb meaning (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

Meaning

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
2. (transitive) To go up.
3. (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
4. (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
5. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
6. (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
7. (incel slang, intramurally derogatory) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.

Example Sentences

He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

You ascend the stairs and take a right.

Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

Word Forms

• ascends
• ascending
• ascended

Antonyms for ascend

Common opposites include descend, fall, come down.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include climb, rise, entrain, escalate, raise, get.

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