describes

VERB

explain in speech, writing

Synonyms

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call characterize chronicle construe define depict detail express illustrate interpret label name outline portray recount report represent specify tell term

STRONG

communicate delineate distinguish draw elucidate epitomize exemplify explicate expound illuminate image impart limn narrate paint particularize picture recite rehearse relate sketch state trace transmit

WEAK

convey image make apparent make clear make sense of make vivid mark out write up

Antonyms

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conceal confuse distort hide ignore listen misunderstand suppress

STRONG

cloud complicate keep mystify obscure take

WEAK

misrepresent mix up

Example Sentences

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In “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville describes Nantucket as an “ant hill in the sea,” an isolated outpost for whalers and drifters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

He describes his and his wife's decision to move to the Cotswolds village from London as "quite instinctive".

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Physicists still lack a complete quantum theory of gravity that describes gravity at the smallest scales.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

More broadly, Thomas describes the majority as creating a new exception out of a general “policy concern” about unfair results.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton