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
Renaud, in his impetuosity, had ceased to cut steps towards the bottom of the slope, and had slipped down the last few feet, of course cutting the remaining steps before attempting to reascend.
From Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
But the inquiry is not one of great importance, and may well be dismissed until the star of Gozzi shall reascend the heavens, if time's whirligig should ever bring about this revenge.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Nightly he descended 'into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that he could ever reascend.'
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Devil used as a ladder by Dante to reascend to light, 822-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
