Usually means: Rise to a higher position.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascend: Merriam-Webster
  2. ascend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ascend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ascend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ascend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ascend, ascend: Wordnik
  7. ascend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ascend: Wiktionary
  9. ascend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ascend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ascend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ascend: Dictionary.com
  13. ascend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ascend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ASCEND, Ascend (Greg Howe album), Ascend (Illenium album), Ascend (Nine Lashes album), Ascend (disambiguation), Ascend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ascend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ascend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ascend: Rhymezone
  19. ascend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ascend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ascend: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ascend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ascend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ascend: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. ascend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. ascend: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ascend: Legal dictionary

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  1. ascend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascend: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. ascend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ASCEND: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ascend: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ascendable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
verb:  (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
verb:  (transitive) To go up.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
verb:  To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
verb:  (incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.

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