descry

Speech parts

1. descry - Noun

2. descry - Verb

Meaning

To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.

To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

espy spot discover spy discern behold mark see view find determine note consider eye identify
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Antonyms

miss lose hide mistake ignore neglect
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Hypernyms

sight spy

Derivatives

descried descrying

Examples

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Close letter words and terms

descriptor language descriptory descrive descum Descurainia Descurainia pinnata