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To go up — physically, socially, or spiritually, gravity politely declining to comment.
means To rise or climb upward, whether a staircase, a throne, or a corporate ladder.
from From Latin ascendere, ad- (to) plus scandere (to climb) — the same root that scales itself into scandal, descend, and that scanning eyes do across a page.
Throne usageMonarchs ascend; they never merely sit down.
Astronomy termStars ascend across the night sky eastward.
OppositeDescend shares the exact climbing root.