All 4 Uses of
ascend
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- The grilles slid shut with a crash and the lift ascended slowly, chains rattling, while the same cool female voice Harry had heard in the telephone box rang out again.†
Chpt 7
- Consequently, he was the first to ascend the silver ladder that led to Sybill Trelawney's classroom when the bell rang.†
Chpt 12
- And it had been Seamus's very first meeting… and Neville had been getting so good… 'Fizzing Whizzbee,' sang Umbridge; the stone gargoyle jumped aside, the wall behind split open, and they ascended the moving stone staircase.†
Chpt 27
- 'Well, we were always going to fail that one,' said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase.†
Chpt 31 *
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder