HOW TO PRONOUNCE
descry
/dɛˈskɹaɪ/
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What does descry mean?
verb
- (literary) To announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.
- (literary) To see, especially from afar; to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɛˈskɹaɪ/
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There was hardly a spot of him where you could not descry some sign of a bone underneath.
I shall perceive each object less distinctly, but I shall descry the principal facts with more certainty.
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I climbed up and peered into the opening, and could just descry the owl clinging to the inside of the tree.
We see the ground whereon these woes do lie, But the true ground of all these piteous woes We cannot without circumstance descry.
The Emperor had been the first, as early as midday, to descry with his field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his attention.