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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