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Verb: descry  di'skrI
  1. Catch sight of
    "Our merchants, to their great charges, set forth fleets to descry the seas"
    - spot, espy, spy

Derived forms: descries, descried, descrying

Type of: sight, spy

Nearest

descriptive
descriptive adjective
descriptive anthropology
descriptive clause
descriptive geometry
descriptive grammar
descriptive linguistics
descriptively
descriptivism
descriptor
descry
Descurainia
Descurainia pinnata
desecrate
desecrated
desecration
desecrator
desegregate
desegregated
desegregation
deselect