ascend

IPA: ʌsˈɛnd

verb

  • (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
  • (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
  • (transitive) To go up.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
  • (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  • To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
  • (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
  • (incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
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Examples of "ascend" in Sentences

  • The trail ascends to the summit.
  • The Mihops are in the ascendancy.
  • The Reformed party was in the ascendant.
  • That is the ascendant is goes retrograde
  • The French military was in the ascendant.
  • The next in line is the Ascendant Prince.
  • Mistrust and resentment was on the ascendancy.
  • All of these pointed to the ascendancy of Wang Mang.
  • By the mid 1440s, the Woodvilles were in ascendancy.
  • The notes ascend the tuned scale in an alternating pattern.

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