ascend

Verb

• move to a better position in life or to a better job
  • She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
    

• come up, of celestial bodies
  • The sun also rises
    
  • The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
    
  • Jupiter ascends
    

• slope upwards
  • The path ascended to the top of the hill
    

• go along towards (a river's) source
  • The boat ascended the Delaware
    

• appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
  • the vine climbed up the side of the house
    

• become king or queen
  • She ascended to the throne after the King's death
    

• go back in order of genealogical succession
  • Inheritance may not ascend linearly
    

• travel up, "We ascended the mountain"
  • go up a ladder
    
  • The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  move up , rise , come up , uprise , climb up , go up
• Antonyms: 
  set , go down , go under , descend , fall , come down