See scend on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
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"plural"
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}
],
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"_dis": "69 31",
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"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."
],
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"rising",
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],
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"surge"
],
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]
]
}
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"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
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},
{
"form": "scending",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "scended",
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"To heave upward."
],
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"(intransitive) To heave upward."
],
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}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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{
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"word": "schenden"
}
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"alternative form of schenden"
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"(West Riding) alternative form of schenden"
],
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"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
"forms": [
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"rising",
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],
[
"wave",
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"pitch",
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]
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"word": "scend"
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"present",
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},
{
"form": "scending",
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"participle",
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{
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"To heave upward."
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"(intransitive) To heave upward."
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"(West Riding) alternative form of schenden"
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}
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