ascending

Verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)

1. (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
   • He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
2. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
3. (transitive) To go up.
   • You ascend the stairs and take a right.
4. (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
   • She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
   • Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

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