Word Meaning

ascend definition and meaning

v. i. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
v. i. To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
v. t. To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Crossword clues for ascend

- A climb upwards
- Climb
- Climb or rise
- Climb up
- Dances about to gain height
- Go up
- Go up as first climbers finish
- Go up; climb
- Increase (of costs)
- Increase altitude
- Mount
- Rise
- rise to a position the throne
- Scale
- Take off
- Take to the air