ascends is a form of:

Ascend



verbpast tense: ascended ; past participle: ascended ; present participle: ascending ;
1.
(TRANSITIVE, INTRANSITIVE) (Climb, mount, walk up, rise, arise, soar, climb, mount, advance, go back in time) ឡើង, ឡើងជិះ, ជន់, កាន់តែខ្ពស់, មានចំនួនឡើងម្ដងទៀត, លើកខ្ពស់ឡើង, ដំឡើងថ្លៃ, មានចំនួនទឹកប្រាក់កើន
Example: They ascended a hill, Warm air ascends.
2.
(វេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ) ឡើង
ENGLISH MEANING
verbpast tense: ascended ; past participle: ascended ; present participle: ascending ;
1.
(INTRANSITIVE) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
2.
(INTRANSITIVE) 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.
3.
(TRANSITIVE) 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.