scend

SaySEND/sɛnd/

Pluralscends

Verbscends, scending, scended

2 meanings of scend

1
nouncountable
The upward push of water as a wave passes, lifting a boat with it.
Like the way a swing pushes you up before you come back down.
The scend of the wave lifted the small boat up high.
Each scend pushed the deck upward before it dropped again.
Similarheave, lift, surge, rise
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2
verbintransitive
To rise and heave upward, as a boat pushed up by a wave.
Like a cork lifting up when a wave passes under it.
The ship began to scend as the big waves rolled in.
We felt the deck scend under our feet.
Similarheave, rise, lift, surge
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Origin

This word comes from a changed form of "send," affected by the word "ascend."