Entry Word: ascend

Function: verb

Meaning: to move or extend upward <the path ascended so steeply at one point that we had to scramble up on our hands and knees>

Synonyms arise, climb, lift, mount, rise, soar, up, uprise, upsweep, upturn

Related Words boost, elevate, raise, uplift, upraise; take off, zoom; crest, scale, surmount, top

Near Antonyms dive, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, sink, slide

Antonyms decline, descend, dip, drop, fall (off)