ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Phr. the bubble burst.
305. [Motion upwards] Ascent -- N. ascent, ascension; rising &c 309; acclivity, hill &c
217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up,
go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade † , surmount; shin, shinny, shinney; scale,
scale the heights.
[cause to go up] raise, elevate &c 307.
go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards,
explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap &c 309.
Adj. rising &c v.. scandent † , buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant † ; excelsior.
Adv. uphill.
306. [Motion downwards] Descent -- N. descent, descension † , declension, declination;
fall; falling &c v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse;
downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute † ; titubation † , stumble; fate of
Icarus.
avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
declivity, dip, hill.
[equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel.
V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel,
settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.
dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c 308; fall prostrate, precipitate
oneself; let fall &c 308.
tumble, trip, stumble, titubate † , lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over,
topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.
Adj. descending &c v.; descendent; decurrent † , decursive † ; labent † , deciduous; nodding
to its fall.
Adv. downhill, downwards.
Phr. the bottom fell out.
307. Elevation -- N. elevation; raising &c v.; erection, lift; sublevation † , upheaval;
sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c (convexity) 250.
lever &c 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging
machine.
dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear,
hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear † , upcast † , uphoist † , upheave; buoy, weigh
mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
escalate &c (increase) 35 102 194.
take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head
up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
Adj. elevated &c v.; stilted, attollent † , rampant.
Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.