Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ascend
IPA transcription: [əs'ɛnd]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ascend, go_up
    Meaning: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Usage examples
  • The nature of vapor is to ascend; it ascends without will or intelligence.
  • Thin stairs, which only one man could ascend at a time, connected lines of tortuous corridors.
  • This very easily did we ascend, And turning to the right along its ridge, From those eternal circles we departed.
  • To judge by the distant appearance of the summit of Snaefell, it would have seemed too steep to ascend on our side.
  • Nimrod then built a tower so as to ascend to heaven "to see Abraham's god", and make war against Him, but the tower was overthrown.
  • They have in them the instinct to rise; and as surely as water regains its own level, so do they, from however low a source, ascend to theirs.
  • Oh, then, a million curses take it--respectability, I mean; may it sink into the bottomless pit, and the smoke of its torment ascend for ever and ever!
  • Before this room, to which you could ascend by the grand, and go out by the back staircase, the servants passed with curiosity, and Bertuccio with terror.
  • On this or another occasion Etana desired to ascend to highest heaven. He asked the Eagle to assist him, and the bird assented, saying: "Be glad, my friend.
  • By canoe, by dugout, by pack-horse, and on foot, they planned to ascend the Fraser, and they mobbed the company for passage to Langley by the first steamer out from Victoria.