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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ascend \As*cend"\, verb (used with an object) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ascend \As*cend"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ascended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ascending}.] [L. ascendere; ad + scandere to climb, mount. See {Scan}.]
1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to {descend}.
Higher yet that star ascends. --Bowring.
I ascend unto my father and your father. --John xx. 17.
Note: Formerly used with up.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --Addison.
2. 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.
Syn: To rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ascend
verb
1: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" [syn: {go up}] [ant: {descend}]
2: go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
3: become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
4: go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
5: slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
6: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends" [syn: {rise}, {come up}, {uprise}] [ant: {set}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "ascend": advance, arise, aspire, back, back up, bank, budge, buss the clouds, cant, careen, chandelle, change, change place, circle, clamber, climb, come up, crest, curl upwards, decline, descend, dip, drop, ebb, escalade, escalate, fall, fall away, fall off, float, flow, gain altitude, get over, get up, go, go around, go downhill, go round, go sideways, go up, go uphill, grade, grow up, gyrate, hoick, incline, keel, lean, levitate, lift, list, loom, mount, move, move over, pitch, plunge, progress, rake, rear, rear up, regress, retreat, retrogress, rise, rise up, rotate, run, scale, scale the heights, scramble, shelve, shift, shin, sidle, sink, slant, slope, soar, spin, spiral, spire, stand on tiptoe, stand up, stir, stream, subside, surge, surmount, swag, swarm up, sway, sweep up, tilt, tip, top, tower, travel, up, upclimb, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprear, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upwind, wane, whirl, zoom
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