ascend
verb (used without object)
to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise.
reascend
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a word derived from
ascend.
Example Sentences
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He was, however, one of those cultural figures who begin at a peak of recognition and spend a professional lifetime unable to reascend the heights.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2010
He commanded Moses to reascend the mount for a second tablet, after he had destroyed the first.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
Before setting out, he had detached with Father Hennepin, one of his companions named Dacan, on a mission to reascend the Mississippi beyond the river of the Illinois, and if possible, to its source.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora
Hard it is to have thus to reascend the stream down which one has for so long been gently floated!
From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest
Souls must reascend through the seven planetary spheres to God, 851-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
