ascend(verb) travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
(verb) slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
(verb) go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
(verb) become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
(verb) go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
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