Berita Hari Ini: Word of the Day: Descry

January 21, 2026

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verb

1. To catch sight of.

2. Find out, discover.

3. (Obsolete) To make known, reveal.

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"From the hilltop, we could descry the river winding through the valley below."

"She descried a familiar face in the crowd just before the concert began."

"From the data alone, it was hard to descry what had gone wrong."

Old French, 14th century

The two usages of "descry" — one meaning "to catch sight of" and the other meaning "to find out" — actually come from different etymologies. The former came into Middle English as "descriven" from the Anglo-French "descrire," meaning "to describe, give an account of," which came from the Latin "dēscrībere," meaning ...

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