All 5 Uses of
ascend
in
Childhood's End
- There were no steps; it was steep and smooth as a toboggan slide and, one would have thought, equally impossible to ascend or descend in any ordinary manner.†
Chpt 5
- Waving cheerfi. illy to the crowds beneath, and to their anxious parents-who, too late, had probably remembered the legend of the Pied Piper-the children began swiftly ascending the steep slope.†
Chpt 5
- Waxing and waning with a peculiar rhythm, it ascended ever more swiftly into the sky, drawing a fluctuating line of light across the stars.†
Chpt 8
- The ship itself was invisible, already far ahead of that ascending light.†
Chpt 8 *
- A few dried fragments of weed, trapped among the rocks, marked the limit of the ascending waters.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder