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descant on

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

sing a descant on a main tune or melody

MWEWordset Dictionary

Classifications

Cognitive

Understand82%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility

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Automation

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Variants

pasttense
descanted on
presentparticiple
descanting on
thirdpersonsingular
descants on
pastparticiple
descanted on