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ascend definition

as·cend (ə send′)

intransitive verb

  1. to go up; move upward; rise
  2. to proceed from a lower to a higher level or degree, as in rank, pitch, etc.
  3. to slope or lead upward
  4. to go back in time or line of ancestry

Etymology: ME ascenden < OFr ascendre < L ascendere < ad-, to + scandere, to climb

transitive verb

  1. to move upward along; mount; climb to ascend stairs
  2. to move toward the source of to ascend a river
  3. to succeed to (a throne)

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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