1. Moving, going or growing upward
   "the ascending stems of chickweed"; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"

1. The act of changing location in an upward direction
   "The mountaineers' ascending of the peak took several gruelling hours";
   - rise, ascent, ascension

1. Travel up
   "We ascended the mountain"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope";
   - go up
    
2. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
   "the vine ascended the side of the house";
   - climb, climb up, mount, go up
    
3. Slope upwards
   "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
    
4. (astronomy) come up, of celestial bodies
   "Jupiter ascends";
   - rise, come up, uprise [archaic, literary]
    
5. Move to a better position in life or to a better job
   "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown";
   - move up, rise
    
6. Become king or queen
   "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
    
7. Go back in order of genealogical succession
   "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
    
8. Go along towards (a river's) source
   "The boat ascended the Delaware"

See also: acclivitous, ascendant, ascendent, ascensive, assurgent, highflying, rising, scandent, up, uphill, upward

Type of: accede, arise, change, come up, date back, date from, enter, follow, go, go back, go up, incline, lift, locomote, motion, move, move up, movement, pitch, rise, slope, travel, travel along, uprise [archaic, literary]

Antonym: descending

Encyclopedia: Ascending