ascending
/əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/ adjective B2- Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence) · Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
- That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order. · We used an ascending sort.
- Leading or sloping upwards.
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Dantès made no resistance; he was like a man in a dream; he saw soldiers drawn up on the embankment; he knew vaguely that he was ascending a flight of steps; he was conscious that he passed through a door, and that the door closed behind him; but all this indistinctly as through a mist.
We heard a loud knock, a deep voice below, and heavy steps ascending the stair.
I have a dim memory of slowly ascending the steps, entering a wide-opened door, passing into a large room which contained several beds, and throwing myself down with a gasp of satisfaction upon one of them.
He was the first to jump on shore; and had he dared, he would, like Lucius Brutus, have “kissed his mother earth.” It was dark, but at eleven o’clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, “ascending high,” played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
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