[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ascend \ascend"\, v. i. 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.
      1913 webster

            higher yet that star ascends.         --bowring.
      1913 webster

            i ascend unto my father and your father. --john xx.
                                                  17.
      1913 webster

   note: formerly used with up.
         1913 webster

               the smoke of it ascended up to heaven. --addison.
         1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   syn: to rise; mount; climb; scale; soar; tower.
        1913 webster
see also:
ascended ascending scan descend 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ascend \ascend"\, 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.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ascend
     v 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
see also:
go up descend rise come up uprise set 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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