ascend

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  1. intransitive verb To go or move upward; rise. See Synonyms at rise.
  2. intransitive verb To slope upward.
  3. intransitive verb To rise from a lower level or station; advance: ascended from poverty to great wealth; ascend to the throne.

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  1. Middle English ascenden, from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendere : ad-, ad- + scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ascenden, assenden, from Latin ascendere, adscendere, go up, climb up to, from ad, to, + scandere, climb: see scan, and cf. descend, transcend.
 

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