# ascend
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈsɛnd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnd
* Hyphenation: as‧cend

### Verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)
* (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
    He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
* (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
* (transitive) To go up.
    You ascend the stairs and take a right.
* (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
    She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
    She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.
* (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
* To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
    Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
* (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
* (incel slang) To cease being an incel, generally losing one's virginity/having sex, or by forming a romantic relationship.
** 2022, Alyssa Jewel Davis, "Climbing the masculine hierarchy: Examining constructions of masculinity through incel identities", thesis submitted to Clemson University, page 35:
    Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.
** 2023, Julia R. DeCook, Megan Kelly, “Interrogating the 'incel menace': assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies”, in Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Laura J. Shepherd, editors, Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism‎, unnumbered page:As such, race and class are not only factors in attractiveness (i.e. “Just Be White” and “job/career maxxing” are often used in the forums), but is also a factor when incels discuss ways for them to “ascend” and leave their incel status.
** 2023, Maria Brix Rasmussen, "The Lack of Love: The Sacred and the Suffering Experiences of Female Involuntary Celibates", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 57:
    Many femcels take extreme measures to 'ascend from femceldom', and Laura describes how she is in the process of improving her looks and personality.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ascend.

#### Antonyms

* descend

#### Derived terms

* unascended
ascendible

#### Derived terms

* ascendable
* en
* reascend

#### Related terms

* ascent
* ascendant
* ascendance
* ascendancy/ascendency
* ascending
* ascender
* ascension
* transcend

#### Translations

Arabic: صَعِد (ṣaʕid)
Egyptian Arabic: طلع (ṭiliʕ)
Bulgarian: издигам се (izdigam se)
Burmese: တက် (my) (tak)
Dutch: opstijgen (nl)
Egyptian: (jꜥr)
Esperanto: alsupri (eo), supreniri
Evenki: угиривми (ugiriwmi)
Finnish: nousta (fi), mennä ylös
Georgian: ასვლა (asvla)
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (steigan)
Greek: ανεβαίνω (el) (anevaíno)
Ancient: ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō)
Hungarian: felmegy (hu), felemelkedik (hu), emelkedik (hu)
Indonesian: naik (id)
Irish: ardaigh
Italian: salire (it)
Javanese: munggah (jv), mundhak
Lao: ຂຶ້ນ (lo) (khưn)
Malay: naik (ms)
Manchu: ᠸᡝᠰᡳᠮᠪᡳ (wesimbi)
Marathi: वर जाणे (var jāṇe)
Mongolian: авирах (mn) (avirax)
Nahuatl: tlehco
Old Javanese: nek, uṇḍa
Portuguese: subir (pt)
Quechua: wichay
Romanian: urca (ro), sui (ro)
Sindhi: چڙھڻ
Spanish: subir (es), ascender (es)
Swedish: stiga (sv)
Tagalog: akyatin
Thai: ขึ้น (th) (kʉ̂n)
Tocharian B: ränk-
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎍𐎊 (ʿly)
Ukrainian: підніма́тися impf (pidnimátysja), підійма́тися impf (pidijmátysja), підня́тися pf (pidnjátysja)
Vietnamese: lên (vi) :

#### See also

* climb

#### Further reading

* “ascend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ascend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Dances, dances, decans, descan

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

ascend
* third-person singular present indicative of ascendre