OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20765

ascend

/əˈsɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ascender • subir
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
ascender • subir
To slope in an upward direction.
ascender • subir
To go up.
When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, be…
You ascend the stairs and take a right.
ascender • subir
To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.