Synonyms for descry

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-skrahy

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskraɪ

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Définition of descry

Origin : "to see, discern," c.1300, probably from Old French descrier "publish" (Modern French décrier), from Latin describere (see describe).

verb discover

Example sentences :

If only she could descry something plain to tell her husband!
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

And can you descry no difference between his letters and those addressed to other people?'
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Bolko could descry the figure of Auriola at the margin of the spring.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 » by Various

Then she prayed a prayer from the depths of her heart; but still she could descry no rock.
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

No people who have lived much with Nature have failed to descry this.
Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding

There was hardly a spot of him where you could not descry some sign of a bone underneath.
Extract from : « At the Back of the North Wind » by George MacDonald

Then I seemed to descry at the point of the bay windward a sail.
Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed

Silvey strained his eyes far out in an effort to descry the captive.
Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely

They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.
Extract from : « The Land of Fire » by Mayne Reid

I hope you will descry in this a reason for coming to me again, instead of my coming to you.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

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