English Explanatory Dictionary

scend

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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
  1. To heave upward.

Word forms

scend scends scending scended

Etymology

A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.

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