ascend

• Pressure on the body reduces as they ascend, allowing gases dissolved in the blood - mainly nitrogen - to come out of solution and form bubbles. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
• As you ascend, the expanding air has got to find a way to come out.
• The leaves are crushed and applied to relieve headache; also boiled; after which they are put into a small hole in the ground and hot stones placed therein to cause a vapor to ascend, which is inhaled to cure backache The fumes of the leaves heated upon a stone or a hot iron pan are inhaled to cure headache 2. —  The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300
• The summit of Mont Blanc seemed to have greatly increased since I began to ascend, and this, and not looking behind me, rendered me wholly unconscious of the progress I made At length, from the slippery condition of the path and the frequent use that I was obliged to make of the pole with which I had been furnished, I became conscious that I had advanced far beyond what I had at first purposed. —  Scenes in Switzerland
• Perhaps he has so got into this bracing habit that he may even "climb down," if only in order once more to ascend--a new rendering of reculer pour mieux sauter_. —  Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality

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