verb

1. To move upward, to fly, to soar.

   "He ascended to heaven upon a cloud."

2. To slope in an upward direction.

3. To go up.

   "You ascend the stairs and take a right."

4. To succeed.

   "She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated."

5. To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.

6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).

   "Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity."

7. To become higher in pitch.