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ascend

/əˈsɛnd/ verbo C1

En español: ascender, subir

  1. To move upward, to fly, to soar. (intransitive)
  2. To slope in an upward direction. (intransitive)
  3. To go up. (transitive) · You ascend the stairs and take a right.
  4. To succeed a ruler on (the throne). · She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.· She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.
  5. To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. (figuratively, intransitive)
  6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.). · Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
  7. To become higher in pitch. (transitive)
  8. To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity and engaging in sexual intercourse, or by forming a romantic relationship.

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De la biblioteca

The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 17 · B2
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 76 · C1
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
The Valley of Fear, p. 2 · C1
It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 6 · B2

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