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Ascend

/əˈsɛnd/
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(verb) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.
He was going to ascend to the throne.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The climbers began to ____ the high mountain very early in the morning.

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