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ascending

verb , present participle of ascend

Synonyms and Antonyms of ascending

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 of ascending

arising, aspiring, climbing, lifting, mounting, rising, soaring, thrusting, upping, uprearing, uprising, upthrusting, upturning

Words Related to ascending

surging, towering

boosting, elevating, raising, upheaving, uplifting, upraising

ballooning, blasting off, taking off, zooming

cresting, scaling, surmounting, topping

canting, inclining, leaning, listing, reclining, slanting, sloping, tilting, tipping

Near Antonyms of ascending

diving, nose-diving, plummeting, sinking, sliding

Antonyms of ascending

declining, descending, dipping, dropping, falling (off), plunging

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