Word
Ascend
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
as-cend
Definition
- 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.
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