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Noun ascent has 3 senses
- ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
--1 is a kind of slope, incline, side
Antonyms: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
--1 has particulars: uphill
- rise, rising, ascent, ascension - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
--2 is a kind of change of location, travel
--2 has particulars: | | climb, climbing, mounting; elevation, lift, raising; heave, heaving; liftoff; rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom; takeoff; upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust; uplifting |
- rise, ascent, ascension, ascending - the act of changing location in an upward direction
--3 is a kind of motion, movement, move
--3 has particulars:
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