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Ascend Ascent Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is CLIMB which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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noun

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

• the act of climbing something

verb

• go upward with gradual or continuous progress

• move with effort, by grasping

• go up or advance

• slope upward

• improve one's social status

• increase in value or to a higher point

53%6Ascent
verb

• travel up

• go back in order of genealogical succession

• become king or queen

• appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils

• go along towards (a river's) source

• slope upwards

• come up, of celestial bodies

• move to a better position in life or to a better job

21%4Ascent
noun

• a growth in strength or number or importance

• the act of changing location in an upward direction

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• the amount a salary is increased

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

• an increase in cost

• increase in price or value

verb

• move upward

• increase in value or to a higher point

• rise to one's feet

• rise up

• come to the surface

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• move to a better position in life or to a better job

• go up or advance

• become more extreme

• get up and out of bed

• rise in rank or status

• become heartened or elated

• exert oneself to meet a challenge

• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

• increase in volume

• come up, of celestial bodies

• return from the dead

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