ascend

1. (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.Examples: "He ascended to heaven upon a cloud."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.intransitive

3. (transitive) To go up.Examples: "You ascend the stairs and take a right."; "When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up."transitive

4. (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).Examples: "She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated."; "She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated."ambitransitive

5. (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.figurativelyintransitive

6. (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.transitive