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ascends

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as⋅cend

  [uh-send]
–verb (used without object)
1. to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
2. to slant upward.
3. to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency.
4. to go toward the source or beginning; go back in time.
5. Music. to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to a higher one.
–verb (used with object)
6. to go or move upward upon or along; climb; mount: to ascend a lookout tower; to ascend stairs.
7. to gain or succeed to; acquire: to ascend the throne.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME ascenden < AF ascendre < L ascendere to climb up, equiv. to a- a- 5 + -scendere, comb. form of scandere to climb. See scan

Related forms:
as⋅cend⋅a⋅ble, as⋅cend⋅i⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. soar. 6. See climb.

Antonyms:
1, 6. descend.
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as·cend   (ə-sěnd')   
v.   as·cend·ed, as·cend·ing, as·cends

v.   intr.

  1. To go or move upward; rise. See Synonyms at rise.

  2. To slope upward.

  3. To rise from a lower level or station; advance: ascended from poverty to great wealth; ascend to the throne.

  4. To go back in time or upward in genealogical succession.

v.   tr.

  1. To move upward upon or along; climb: ascended the mountain.

  2. To succeed to; occupy: ascended the throne upon the death of her father.


[Middle English ascenden, from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendere : ad-, ad- + scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]
as·cend'a·ble, as·cend'i·ble adj.
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Word Origin & History

ascend 
1382, from L. ascendere "to climb up," from ad- "to" + scandere "to climb." An O.E. word for it was stigan. Ascent is 1607, on model of descent. Ascension (c.1315) is the celebration of the ascent of Christ into heaven on the 40th day after the resurrection.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: as·cend
Pronunciation: &-'send
Function: intransitive verb
: to move upward: as a : to conduct nerve impulses towardor to the brain ascend to a nucleus of the brain> <ascending and descending tracts> b : to affect the extremities and especially thelower limbs first and then the central nervous system <ascending paralysis>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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