English Dictionary

ascend

/əˈsɛnd/

verb

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar. / (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction. / (transitive) To go up. / (transitive) To succeed.

She watched the hot air balloon ascend into the sky.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.

意味（3）

(transitive) To go up.

You ascend the stairs and take a right.

意味（4）

(transitive) To succeed.

She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

意味（5）

(intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

意味（6）

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

Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

意味（7）

(transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.

意味（8）

(incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.