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ascend verb [ əˈsɛnd ]

• go up or climb.
• "she ascended the stairs"
Similar: climb (up), come/go/move up, make one's/its way up, come/go/move upwards, rise (up), arise, mount, scale, conquer, clamber up, scramble up, shin up, levitate, fly up, take to the air, take off, soar, slope upwards, loom, tower,
Opposite: descend,
• rise or move up through the air.
• "the lift ascended from his sight"
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin ascendere, from ad- ‘to’ + scandere ‘to climb’.

ascend the throne

• become king or queen.



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