ascending
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- n the act of changing location in an upward direction
- v travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
- v go back in order of genealogical succession
- v become king or queen
- v appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
- v go along towards (a river's) source
- v slope upwards
- v come up, of celestial bodies
- v move to a better position in life or to a better job
- a moving or going or growing upward
the ascending plane
the ascending staircase
the ascending stems of chickweed
- And her most lasting legacy may lie in her children Rahul and Priyanka, one of whom may well become India's Prime Minister someday, ascending to the high office that their mother .
- Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot.
- At Imo's, Devlin started out as a delivery boy before slowly ascending to assistant manager, making $20,000 a year.