Usually means: Rises or goes to higher.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ascends: Merriam-Webster
  2. ascends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ascends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ascends, ascends: Wordnik
  5. ascends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ascends: Wiktionary
  7. ascends: Dictionary.com
  8. ascends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ascends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ascends: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See ascend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ascend)

verb:  (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
verb:  (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
verb:  (transitive) To go up.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
verb:  To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
verb:  (incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.
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