Thesaurus / descry
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They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.
THE LAND OF FIREMAYNE REIDHe looked hard into the branches and their wilderness of fresh leaves, but could descry nothing.
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALDAnd yet, and yet—as I gazed I could descry a striking resemblance to our own waterhole except that this was more shut in.
A FRONTIER MYSTERYBERTRAM MITFORDHe is so eager to descry differences, that he overlooks similarities—nay, identities.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERThey strung themselves out along the road, they went up to the hilltops, in order to descry the carriage sooner.
BROTHER JACQUES (NOVELS OF PAUL DE KOCK, VOLUME XVII)CHARLES PAUL DE KOCKThey have wide streets, simply to embarrass you, by making it impossible to descry a shop or a friend.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTThis foot once planted on the goal, This glory-garland round my soul, Could I descry such?
BROWNING AND THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES. S. CURRY"We're too late," groaned one of the men, as he peered through the darkness, trying to descry the hull of the vessel.
A SAILOR'S LASSEMMA LESLIEAnd Forbes could descry the muffled outlines of fingers clutching the heavy fabric.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESThe warders at Berwick no longer look out from the castle walls to descry the glitter of Southron spears.
LIVES OF THE ENGINEERSSAMUEL SMILESWORDS RELATED TO DESCRY
- analyzes
- ascertains
- categorizes
- characterizes
- classifies
- collates
- decides
- demarcates
- determinates
- determines
- diagnoses
- diagnosticates
- differentiates
- discriminates
- divides
- estimates
- extricates
- figures out
- fingers
- identifies
- individualizes
- individuates
- judges
- knows
- labels
- makes out
- marks
- marks off
- names
- parts
- pinpoints
- places
- qualifies
- recognizes
- selects
- separates
- sets apart
- sets off
- sifts
- signalizes
- single out
- singularizes
- sort out
- specifies
- spots
- tags
- tells apart
- tells between
- tells from
- arrive at
- bring to light
- bump into
- chance upon
- collar
- come across
- come up with
- come upon
- corral
- descry
- detect
- dig up
- discern
- discover
- distinguish
- encounter
- espy
- expose
- fall in with
- ferret out
- happen upon
- hit upon
- identify
- lay fingers on
- light upon
- locate
- make out
- meet
- notice
- observe
- perceive
- pinpoint
- recognize
- recover
- run across
- run into
- scare up
- sight
- smoke out
- spot
- strike
- stumble upon
- track down
- trip on
- turn up
- uncover
- unearth
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