The verb ascend has 6 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) ascend, go up -- (travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope")
2. ascend -- (go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly")
3. ascend -- (become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death")
4. ascend -- (go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware")
5. ascend -- (slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill")
6. rise, come up, uprise, ascend -- (come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends")