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scend

scend noun: the rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.

Noun

scend (plural scends)

  1. The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.

Verb

scend (third-person singular simple present scends, present participle scending, simple past and past participle scended)

  1. (intransitive) To heave upward.

Forms of scend

Noun
pluralscends
Verb
third-person singular presentscends
present participlescending
past participlescended
pastscended

Origin of scend

A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.

Questions about scend

What does scend mean?
Scend means the rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.
What part of speech is scend?
Scend can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of scend?
The plural of scend is scends.

Words near scend in the dictionary

  1. scenarized
  2. scenarizes
  3. scenarizing
  4. scenary
  5. scenas
  6. scend
  7. scended
  8. scending
  9. scends
  10. scene
  11. scene graph

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