Word Finder - ascend

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To move upward, to fly, to soar.

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He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

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To slope in an upward direction.

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To go up.

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You ascend the stairs and take a right.

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To succeed.

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She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

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To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

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To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

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Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

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To become higher in pitch.

In seasons of high rainfall, the river can ascend 50 meters.

He sensed the creature ascend the stairs and chose a room at random, shoving it open with his hip.

Plantains ascend to 7000 ft.

One of the most conspicuous features of Bonn, viewed from the river, is the pilgrimage (monastic) church of Kreuzberg (1627), behind and above Poppelsdorf; it has a flight of 28 steps, which pilgrims used to ascend on their knees.

Inside the bar at its mouth (formed by a storm in 1616) ships of 200 tons can still ascend to Cauto.

People wishing to ascend the monument may choose one of two options.

Many tropical types here ascend to 7000 ft.

Squat down until your thighs are about parallel to the floor, then make a smooth turn and ascend to the starting position.

It will still be possible to reach the West Wall, but by using the funicular to ascend, which can have long queues.

Thus we ascend from physical awareness, through ego consciousness to the level of the self.

Fantasy literature has only recently broken free of the rigid caste system of the feudal period in which much fantasy is set, to allow butchers boys and pickpockets to ascend to heroic roles.

Visitors now ascend the stairs to the first floor of the palace.

About 3 metres in front of them was arranged a pair of smaller horizontal j aeroplanes, shaped like a long narrow ellipse, which formed the rudder that effected changes of elevation, the driver being able by means of a lever to incline them up or down according as he desired to ascend or descend.

The primitive philosophy to which these conceptions belong has to a great degree been discredited by modern science; yet the clear survivals of such ancient and savage rites may still be seen in Europe, where the Bretons leave the remains of the All Souls' supper on the table for the ghosts of the dead kinsfolk to partake of, and Russian peasants set out cakes for the ancestral manes on the ledge which supports the holy pictures, and make dough ladders to assist the ghosts of the dead to ascend out of their graves and start on their journey for the future world; while other provision for the same spiritual journey is made when the coin is still put in the hand of the corpse at an Irish wake.

The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another.

Move up right and ascend slanting ledges to the ledge on the girdle traverse (peg runner).

Why is n't it a truism that people join, in serendipity, to ascend to new heights of thought and creativity.

Turn right at a T-junction to cross the bridge and ascend to the main valley road at Mill Bridge.

The Daly, which in its upper course is called the Katherine, is navigable for a considerable distance, and small vessels are able to ascend over 100 m.

The sea produces three different seals, which often ascend rivers from the coast, and can live in lagoons of fresh water; many cetaceans, besides the " right whale " and sperm whale; and the dugong, found on the northern shores, which yields a valuable medicinal oil.

At right angles to this street lanes ascend the hill-side to Hillhead, where the more modern structures and villas have been built.

The expedition was not permitted to ascend the river Paraguay, and returned completely foiled in its main purpose.

Deaconesses in the East received the imposition of the bishop's hands, but could not ascend to the priesthood.

In 1868 he was created vice-admiral of the Italian navy, but, two years later, left Italy to ascend the Spanish throne, his reluctance to accept the invitation of the Cortes having been overridden by the Italian cabinet.

Boats of 350 tons can ascend generally as far as Mi.inden.

The lowest lands are the most productive, and fertility diminishes as we ascend towards the south, until on the bleak crest of the Erzgebirge cultivation ceases altogether.

Several of the ranges ascend abruptly from the sea; their base is cut back in high cliffs; the Sierra Santa Lucia, south of San Francisco, is a range of this kind; its seaward slope is almost uninhabitable.

The navigation of the Magdalena is carried on by means of lightdraught steamboats which ascend to Yeguas, 14 m.

The proportion of northern forms, as regards both species and individuals, increases as we ascend to the higher regions.

Compound sporophores arise when any of the branched or unbranched types of spore-bearing hyphae described above ascend into the air in consort, and are more or less crowded into definite layers, cushions, columns or other complex masses.

Nearly in the centre of the plain of the Campagna stood Gabii; Bovillae was also in the plain, but close to the Appian Way, where it begins to ascend the Alban Hills.

In summer they ascend to the limits of perpetual snow, being only exceeded in the loftiness of their haunts by the ibex; and during that season they show their intolerance of heat by choosing such browsing-grounds as have a northern exposure.

From the Forcados mouth of the Niger steamers can ascend the main stream as far as Jebba, a distance of 530 m.

Steamers can also ascend the Benue to Yola, 480 m., above the confluence of that river with the Niger at Lokoja.

It is this Etesian wind which enables sailing boats constantly to ascend the Nile, against its strong and rapid current.

It is believed that Diego de Ordaz was the first European to reach the summit of Popocatepetl, though no proof of this remains further than that Cortes sent a party of ten men in 1519 to ascend a burning mountain.

It is divided midway by the large island of Puna, at the eastern end of which is the anchorage for steamers too large to ascend the Guayas.

The Western Ghats ascend more abruptly from the sea to an average height of about 3000 ft.

Shah Alam, the lineal heir of the Mogul line, was thus permitted to ascend the throne of Delhi, where he lived during the great part of a long life as a puppet in the hands of Mahadji Sindhia.

Augustus witnessed the triumphal procession, and Tiberius, as it turned from the Forum to ascend the Capitol, halted, descended from his triumphal car, and did reverence to his adopted father.

The first English vessels to ascend the river as far as I-ch`ang were those of Admiral Sir James Hope's expedition in 1861.

Some time after Don John's appointment to the governorship of the Netherlands Perez accidentally became cognisant of his inconveniently ambitious " empresa de Inglaterra," in which he was to rescue Mary Queen of Scots, marry her, and so ascend the throne of England.

The best routes from the plateau to the Black Sea were followed by the Roman roads from Tavium and Sebasteia to Sinope and Amisus, and those from Sebasteia to Cotyora and Cerasus-Pharnacia, which at first ascend the upper Halys.

After passing Adana, to which point small craft ascend, the Sihun runs south-west to the sea.

They burrow in the sands of every shore; they throng the weeds between tide-marks; they ascend all streams; they are found in deep wells, in caverns, in lakes; in Arctic waters they swarm in numbers beyond computation; they find lodgings on crabs, on turtles, on weed-grown buoys; they descend into depths of the ocean down to hundreds or thousands of fathoms; they are found in mountain streams as far above sea-level as some of their congeners live below it.

Their home is the world below, whence they ascend to earth to pursue the wicked.

The chief of the Bakhtiaris, Rashid, also with treasure, fled to the mountains, and the conspirators invited Ali, a nephew of the deceased monarch, to ascend the vacant throne.

Deer of several kinds are met with, but do not ascend very high on the hillsides, and belong exclusively to Indian forms. The musk deer keeps to the greater elevations.

Small coasters can ascend the river as far as Salvatierra in Galicia (20 m.), but larger vessels are excluded by a sandy bar at the mouth.

An exception formerly existed at Puerto Acre, on the Acre river, to which ocean-going steamers could ascend from Para, but Brazil first closed the Purus and Acre rivers to foreign vessels seeking this port, and then under a treaty of 1903 acquired possession of the port and adjacent territory.