See scend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
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{
"form": "scends",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
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{
"_dis": "69 31",
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},
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"glosses": [
"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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],
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"surge",
"surge"
],
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"pitch",
"pitch#English"
]
]
}
],
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}
{
"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
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{
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},
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"form": "scending",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "scended",
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"pos": "verb",
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"To heave upward."
],
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"(intransitive) To heave upward."
],
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]
}
],
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}
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],
"etymology_text": "A corruption of send, influenced by ascend.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "scends",
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"plural"
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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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],
[
"wave",
"wave"
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[
"surge",
"surge"
],
[
"pitch",
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]
]
}
],
"word": "scend"
}
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],
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"form": "scended",
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"English intransitive verbs"
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"To heave upward."
],
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"(intransitive) To heave upward."
],
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"intransitive"
]
}
],
"word": "scend"
}
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