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1. Give a description of
   - depict, draw
    
2. To give an account or representation of in words
   "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
   - report, account
    
3. Make a mark or lines on a surface
   - trace, draw, line, delineate
    
4. Identify as in botany or biology, for example
   - identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, name

Derived forms: described, describes, describing

See also: description, descriptive

Type of: exposit, expound, inform, mark, set forth