scend

Plural: scends

Verb

Verb Forms: scended, scending, scends

• To rise upwards, especially of a ship on a wave.
• rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
• To heave upward.

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.

Examples

• The score began to SCEND after he finally used his ’Z’ on a triple-letter square.

Synonyms

surge

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