To ascend is to move or travel upwards. You've heard about how we ascend to Heaven after we die? Well, that's because Heaven is above us, so we get to go up!
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to 
Verb
 travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Verb
 come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
Verb
 slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
Verb
 go along towards (a river''s) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
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 become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King''s death"
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 go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
v. i.
 To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed
   to descend.
v. i.
 To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
   inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from
   particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to
   another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest
   antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
v. t.
 To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount;
   to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a
   throne.
Ascend
Higher yet that star ascends.
I ascend unto my father and your father.
The smoke of it ascended up to heaven.2.
Ascend
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to 
To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; 
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