ascend

About 1.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

2. verb To slope in an upward direction.
3. verb To go up.

   You ascend the stairs and take a right.

4. verb To succeed a ruler on (the throne).

   She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

5. verb To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
6. verb To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

   Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

7. verb To become higher in pitch.
8. verb To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.

Similar words

go up climb rise entrain escalate raise get scale ride rebel

Often followed by

the to from into in and a by it

Word family

ascendable ascended ascendible ascending ascends