move up
Verb
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Move to a better position in life or to a better job (synset 201973786)
"She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown"is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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Move upward (synset 201972576)
"The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphoricallysubtypes:
- scend, surge - rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
- climb, climb up, go up, mount - go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom - rise rapidly
- go up - be erected, built, or constructed
- rocket, skyrocket - shoot up abruptly, like a rocket
- bubble - rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- uplift - lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
- chandelle - climb suddenly and steeply
- steam - rise as vapor
- ascend, come up, rise, uprise - come up, of celestial bodies
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