What is another word for ascends?

Pronunciation: [ɐsˈɛndz] (IPA)

Ascends convey the idea of moving or going upwards or climbing. There are many synonyms to describe ascending, a few of which are: climb, rise, soar, scale, mount, go up, elevate, lift, and surge. When someone ascends, it could be as simple as climbing stairs or a ladder, or as complex as scaling a mountain or cliff. Ascending is an action that can be done gradually or rapidly. It can also describe the rise of a particular event or situation. Whether one is ascending physically or figuratively, the synonyms for the term provide a broad spectrum of meaning to accurately portray the act of going upwards.

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Usage examples for Ascends

When alarmed or chased a squirrel always ascends the tree on the opposite side away from you-he will not run to a solitary tree if he can possibly avoid it: he likes a group, and his trick is, the moment he thinks he is out of sight among the upper branches, to slip quietly from one tree to the other till, while you are scanning every bough, he has travelled fifty yards away unnoticed.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
In the centre of each pier is a column, which ascends as usual to the vault.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
After leaving Caen, the traveller will not fail to linger on the little hill which he ascends just after passing by the first crucifix.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner

Famous quotes with Ascends

  • Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
    Mark Hopkins
  • Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
    Washington Irving
  • Certainly in Mexico, the Latin American country I know best, white ascends. Certainly, the whitest dinner party I ever attended was a Mexico City dinner party where a Mexican squire of exquisite manner, mustache, and flán-like jowl, expressed himself surprised, so surprised, to learn that I am a writer. One thought he would never get over it. Un escritor . . . ¿Un escritor . . . ? Turning the word on a lathe of tooth and tongue, until: “You know, in Mexico, I think we do not have writers who look like you,” he said. He meant dark skin, thick lips, Indian nose.
    Richard Rodriguez
  • Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day: And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
    John Dryden
  • Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one."
    Juan Donoso Cortés

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