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Describe   /dɪskrˈaɪb/   Listen
Describe

verb
(past & past part. described; pres. part. describing)
1.
Give a description of.  Synonyms: depict, draw.
2.
To give an account or representation of in words.  Synonyms: account, report.
3.
Make a mark or lines on a surface.  Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace.  "Trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
4.
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.  Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name.






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"Describe" Quotes from Famous Books



... half a mile of the Maine, and my small boat was the first to gain the wreck. It is beyond my power to describe the explosion. It was awful. It paralysed the intellect for a few moments. The cries that came over the water awakened us to a realisation that some great tragedy ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

... be impossible to describe the excitement of Polly and Jacob at this moment, but the girls and boys can imagine something ...
— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.

... Ah, what superiority of intellectual strength! Truly, a proud and noble character that I describe in the supposed words of Monsieur, the uncle. Ha, ha, ha! Death of my soul, I ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... To describe any details of dress, that will not be as "queer" to-morrow as to-day's fashions are bound to be, would seem at the outset pretty much like writing about next year's weather. And yet, there is one unchanging principle which must be followed by every woman, man and ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post

... interview between the mother and her daughter we cannot describe, as no one witnessed it save God; but Adah's face was radiant with happiness, and her soft, brown eyes beaming with joy when it was ended, and she went next to where Hugh ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes


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