Descry

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Verb

Descry (third-person singular simple present descries, present participle Descrying, simple past and past participle descried)

  1. (transitive) To see
  2. (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...

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

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