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Ascend vs Scend - What's the difference?

ascend | scend |

As a verb ascend

is to move upward, to fly, to soar.

As a noun scend is

the rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge.

ascend

English

(wikipedia ascend)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To move upward, to fly, to soar.
  • He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
  • To slope in an upward direction.
  • The road ascends the mountain.
  • To go up.
  • You ascend the stairs and take a right.
  • To succeed.
  • She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
  • (figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  • Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

    Antonyms

    * descend

    Anagrams

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    scend

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge