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ascending
noun
(as-cend-ing)
the act of changing location in an upward direction
Synonyms:
ascension
,
ascent
,
rise
,
ascending
adjective
(as-cend-ing)
moving or going or growing upward
Antonyms:
descending
,
Examples:
The ascending plane.
The ascending staircase.
The ascending stems of chickweed.
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ascending
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ascent
,
climbing
,
ascension
,
ascendant
,
upward
,
rising
,
uphill
,
rise
,
ascendent
,
up
,
scandent
,
acclivitous
,
ascensive
,
assurgent
,
increasing
,
spiraling
,
growing
,
escalating
,
asc
,
crescent
,
mounting
,
upstream
,
boarding
,
clout
,
promotion
,
amounting
,
promotional
,
influence
,
bottom-up
,
upshift
,
amount
,
descending
,
spiralling
,
inclining
,
exalted
,
elevated
,
attaining
,
toping
,
slipping
,
clambering
,
moving
,
vaulted
,
gliding
,
cresting
,
atop
,
catapulting
,
traversing
,
zigzagging
,
hovering
,
falling
,
inching
,
prograde
,
propelling
,
gaining
,
summiting
,
dropping
,
inverted
,
bounding
,
acclimatizing
,
perched
,
surmounting
,
giddying
,
oscillating
,
jumping
,
reaching
,
regaining
,
upturning
,
metamorphosing
,
approaching
,
peaking
,
pirouetting
,
rung
,
bestriding
,
unbarred
,
undulate
,
glissade
,
lept
,
trending
,
conquering
,
nudging
,
levitating
,
paralleling
,
tilting
,
beetling
,
leaping
,
charting
,
relegating
,
reconnoitering
,
shuffling
,
hurtle
,
jockeyed
,
belayed
,
sliding
,
stumbling
,
rappelling
,
wobbling
,
pronated
,
rotating
,
maneuvering
,
drifting
,
ascending
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