Definitions for descry

descry de·scry

Spelling: [dih-skrahy]
IPA: /dɪˈskraɪ/

Descry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in descry (cdersy).

Definitions for descry

verb (used with object)

  1. to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy:
  2. to discover; perceive; detect.

Origin of descry

1250-1300; Middle English descrien Old French de(s)crïer to proclaim, decry. See dis-1, cry

Examples for descry

I hope you will descry in this a reason for coming to me again, instead of my coming to you.

No people who have lived much with Nature have failed to descry this.

Bolko could descry the figure of Auriola at the margin of the spring.

And can you descry no difference between his letters and those addressed to other people?'

Then I seemed to descry at the point of the bay windward a sail.

There was hardly a spot of him where you could not descry some sign of a bone underneath.

Silvey strained his eyes far out in an effort to descry the captive.

They can descry waveless water, seemingly as tranquil as a pond.

If only she could descry something plain to tell her husband!

Then she prayed a prayer from the depths of her heart; but still she could descry no rock.

Word Value for descry
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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