intransitive verb. To go or move upward; rise: synonym: rise.

intransitive verb. To slope upward.

intransitive verb. To rise from a lower level or station; advance.

intransitive verb. To go back in time or upward in genealogical succession.

intransitive verb. To move upward upon or along; climb.

intransitive verb. To slope upward toward or along.

intransitive verb. To succeed to; occupy.

To move upward; mount; go up; rise, whether in air or water, or upon a material object.

To rise, in a figurative sense; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, etc.

To slope upward.

To go backward in the order of time; proceed from modern to ancient times: as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

To rise, as a star; appear above the horizon.

In music, to rise in pitch; pass from any tone to one more acute.

To go or move upward upon; climb: as, to ascend a hill or ladder; to ascend a tree.

To move upward along; go toward the source of: as, to ascend a river. Synonyms

intransitive verb. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

intransitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of.

verb. To move upward, to fly, to soar.

verb. To slope in an upward direction.

verb. To go up.

verb. To succeed.

verb. become king or queen

verb. come up, of celestial bodies

verb. go along towards (a river's) source

verb. travel up,

verb. go back in order of genealogical succession

verb. slope upwards

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

verb. appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

"The whole point of ancient Greek philosophy was to ascend from the cave of ancient Greek nomos to physis, which is why Socrates ended up drinking the hemlock."