scend

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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 (scends, present participle scending; past and past participle scended)

1. (intransitive) To heave upward.

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