Ascent and Fall

Ascent

Ascent noun - The act or an instance of rising or climbing up.
Usage example: our plane broke through some heavy low clouds during its ascent and leveled off once we were above them

Fall is an antonym for ascent.

Fall

Fall noun - A change to a lower state or level.
Usage example: last night's record fall in temperature was a sure sign that winter's coming, like it or not

Ascent is an antonym for fall in topics: defeat, descent.

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

How words are described

long long ascent long fall
entire entire ascent entire fall
constant constant ascent constant fall
great great ascent great fall
Other adjectives: final, meteoric, epic, eventual.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / MapleStory When one gets to Lower Ascent and the next few maps it's possible to fall off the map, forcing you to do the second part of the jump quest again.
  • Wreaking Havok By the divines, use that same arsenal against anyone that can succumb to it in one shot; you shoot, it hits, they fly, guaranteed to die/fall unconscious at the apex of ascent, and drop like the ragdolls they become!
  • If a wizard wants to hurl himself from the ground to the top of a tower, he has to cause a stone with an identical weight to his to fall from the top of the tower and magically link his ascent to the stone's descent.
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