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descry
/ dɪˈskraɪ /
verb
- to discern or make out; catch sight of
- to discover by looking carefully; detect
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Derived Forms
- deˈscrier, noun
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Other Words From
- de·scrier noun
- unde·scried adjective
- unde·scrying adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of descry1
C14: from Old French descrier to proclaim, decry
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Example Sentences
They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.
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He looked hard into the branches and their wilderness of fresh leaves, but could descry nothing.
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And yet, and yet—as I gazed I could descry a striking resemblance to our own waterhole except that this was more shut in.
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He is so eager to descry differences, that he overlooks similarities—nay, identities.
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They strung themselves out along the road, they went up to the hilltops, in order to descry the carriage sooner.
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