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[ verb ] travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
Synonyms Examples "go up a ladder" "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Mark asked , and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road , the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Times_Square , when I ascended to_it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ) , was nearly impassable , the sidewalks swarming_with celebrants , with bundled_up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey . |
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[ verb ] go along towards (a river's) source
Examples "The boat ascended the Delaware" Related terms |
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[ verb ] go back in order of genealogical succession
Examples "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" Related terms |
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