appreciate, come alive, distinguish, hit, look upon, notice, pick up, see, sense, turn up
Definitionv. catch sight of
Last update: June 8, 2015
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After conducting experiments for several years, the scientist was able to descry the cause of the disease. [Please select]
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Using the binoculars, I hoped to descry what the criminals were doing in the woods. [Please select]
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"Look out and descry who they are." [Please select]
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He ought not, of course, to be told more than that he is to descry the inquirer's thoughts, and there ought never to be physical contact, as in holding hands, between the inquirer and the scryer during the experiment. [Please select]
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They looked abroad over the country, in order, if possible, to descry some living creature. [Please select]
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Pericles had foreseen the coming storm: "I descry war," said he, "lowering from the Peloponnesus." [Please select]
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His roving eyes could not descry any herders or dogs. [Please select]
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Mine eyes are dim, yet I descry a young man by the steps of the Temple. [Please select]
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Straining their eyes, the alarmed passengers could descry land. [Please select]
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