Definition of ascend

"ascend" in the verb sense

1. ascend, go up

travel up

"We ascended the mountain"

"go up a ladder"

"The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"

2. ascend

go back in order of genealogical succession

"Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

3. ascend

become king or queen

"She ascended to the throne after the King's death"

4. ascend, climb up

appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

"the vine climbed up the side of the house"

5. ascend

go along towards (a river's) source

"The boat ascended the Delaware"

6. ascend

slope upwards

"The path ascended to the top of the hill"

7. rise, come up, uprise, ascend

come up, of celestial bodies

"The sun also rises"

"The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."

"Jupiter ascends"

8. ascend, move up, rise

move to a better position in life or to a better job

"She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown"

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Quotations for ascend

By steps we may ascend to God. [ Milton ]

Our pleasures and our discontents
Are rounds by which we may ascend. [ Longfellow ]

It is easier to descend than ascend. [ Proverb ]

Father! forgive the heart that clings
Thus trembling to the things of time,
And bid my soul, on angel's wings
Ascend into a purer clime. [ Jane Roscoe ]

Love is wont rather to ascend than descend. [ Proverb ]

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity's horizon evermore. [ Abraham Coles ]

Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend the highest heaven of invention! [ William Shakespeare ]

Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a step in choosing thy friend. [ The Talmud ]

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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The word ascend is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Word Growth involving ascend

Shorter words in ascend

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