ascend

Other forms of ascend

past tense

ascended·

present participle

ascending·

third person

ascends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ascend

What does ascend mean?

ascend means "travel up". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ascend?

ascend has 2 syllables: a-scend. The stress falls on "scend". In IPA it is /əˈsɛnd/.

What is another word for ascend?

Close synonyms include go up, climb up, rise, come up, uprise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ascend?

The recorded antonyms are descend.

Is ascend a common word?

ascend is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ascend?

5 words rhyme with ascend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.