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🌊 To rise upward 🌊 Upward movement
scend

scend

9.9
An upward rise of water that lifts boats
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : ascenso
  • The scend of the wave was impressive as it crashed onto the shore.

Examples

  • The sailors observed the sudden scend of the ocean as the tide rose quickly.

  • During the storm, the captain noticed the drastic scend of the water around the ship.

  • The Transcendent, as the roots of the word indicate -- Latin: "trans," beyond; "scend," to go, as in "ascend" or "descend" -- means "what goes beyond" the everyday experience of reality.

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

roller
vsscend
12 4.4

A long heavy sea wave that rolls toward the shore

focuses on the vertical upward movement rather than horizontal rolling to shore
billow
vsscend
  • Literature
7 7.4

A large rolling wave on the sea

refers specifically to the upward rise of water in nautical use

How High

surge
143 4.2
scend
  • Archaic
9.9
swell
  • Literature
46 5.7
ripple
45 2.6

Surface Forms

scend singular
scends plural

Etymology

Scend comes from the same old Latin root meaning 'to climb' and is the same root as ascend and descend. So, a scend is the upward rise of water or a wave that lifts a boat.