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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | going up |
| Synonyms: | ascent, climbing, escalating, flying, mounting, rise, rising, scaling, soaring, towering |
| Notes: | ascension is 'rising'; accension is 'kindling' or 'being kindled' |
| Antonyms: | declension, decline, descendancy |
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| Main Entry: | crescendo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase to climax |
| Synonyms: | apex, ascension, building, climb, crest, critical mass, culmination, elevation, escalation, intensification, peak, pinnacle, rise, summit, surge, upsurge, zenith |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement upward; upward slope |
| Synonyms: | acclivity, ascension, ascent, climb, elevation, eminence, highland, hillock, incline, lift, mount, rising, rising ground, soaring, surge, towering, upland, upsurge |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, drop, fall |
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| Main Entry: | ascent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [Motion upwards] Ascent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder., rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
-verbs
ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; aspire., climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; scale, scale the heights., go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off, spring up; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap.
-adjectives
rising scandent, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant; excelsior.
-adverbs
uphill.
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| Antonyms: | descent |
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