Descry
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English
Verb
Descry (third-person singular simple present descries, present participle Descrying, simple past and past participle descried)
- (transitive) To see
- (transitive) To notice carefully; to detect
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood...I came within view of the sea...and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land - whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending ... at a very great distance...
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Thesaurus
appreciate, behold, catch, catch sight of, clap eyes on, come alive, comprehend, detect, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, glimpse, have in sight, hit, identify, ken, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, make out, mark, meet with, note, notice, observe, penetrate, perceive, pick out, pick up, pierce, plumb, realize, recognize, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, sense, sight, spot, spy, take in, turn up, twig, understand, view, witness
Etymology
From Old French descrier (“to proclaim, announce, cry”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Translations
to notice carefully; to detect
External links
- Descry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Descry in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Descry at OneLook Dictionary Search