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descry

verb as in discover

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Example Sentences

They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.

He looked hard into the branches and their wilderness of fresh leaves, but could descry nothing.

And yet, and yet—as I gazed I could descry a striking resemblance to our own waterhole except that this was more shut in.

He is so eager to descry differences, that he overlooks similarities—nay, identities.

They strung themselves out along the road, they went up to the hilltops, in order to descry the carriage sooner.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to descry, such as: behold, detect, determine, discern, disclose, and espy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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