Accede vs Ascend - What's the difference?
ascend | accede |
To move upward, to fly, to soar.
To slope in an upward direction.
To go up.
To succeed.
(figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
In intransitive terms the difference between ascend and accede
is that ascend is to slope in an upward direction while accede is to become a party to an agreement or a treaty.ascend
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(wikipedia ascend)Verb
(en verb)- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- The road ascends the mountain.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
Antonyms
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* *Anagrams
* ----accede
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Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
