meaning of ascend3

1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
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.
3.
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.
4.
travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep ">slope"


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