Crossword-Solution: DESCRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Descry | v. t. | To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover. |
| Descry | v. t. | To discover; to disclose; to reveal. |
| Descry | n. | Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “DESCRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Forget lines involving key notice | 1 answer |
| Find by painstaking research | 1 answer |
| Catch sight of from afar | 1 answer |
| Catch sight of from a distance | 1 answer |
| Notice in the distance | 2 answers |
| Come to see | 2 answers |
| CLAP eyes on | 2 answers |
| COME ___ AFAR | 10 answers |
| CATCH A GLIMPSE OF | 13 answers |
| Catch sight of | 17 answers |
| afar | 18 answers |
| Espy | 19 answers |
| Perceive | 21 answers |
| Behold | 22 answers |
| Sight | 35 answers |
| Visualize | 39 answers |
| Visualise | 40 answers |
| Discern | 44 answers |
| Witness | 46 answers |
| Dis-cover? | 46 answers |
| Distinguish | 51 answers |
| Observe | 51 answers |
| Locate | 53 answers |
| Detect | 54 answers |
| make out | 64 answers |
| Encounter | 66 answers |
| Notice | 75 answers |
| See ___ | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESCRY (5)
Thus wore out night; and now the harald Lark Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry 280 The Morn’s approach, and greet her with his song.
Without the discords how should we learn to prize the harmony? “Carried on the wings of music and high thought, we have ascended one of those Delectable mountains--Pisgah-peaks from which “‘Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither’; and whence we can descry, however faintly, the land that is very far off to which we travel, and we would fain linger, nay, abide, on the mount, building there our tabernacles.
This foot once planted on the goal, This glory-garland round my soul, Could I descry such? Try and test! I sink back shuddering from the quest.
The pictures of noted bank burglars and confidence men aided him not one whit, for in none of them could he descry the slightest resemblance to the smooth faced youth of the early morning.
VIII When Phoebus next unclosed his wakeful eye, Up rose the sexton of that place profane, And missed the image, where it used to lie, Each where he sough in grief, in fear, in vain; Then to the king his loss he gan descry, Who sore enraged killed him for his pain; And straight conceived in his malicious wit, Some Christian bade this great offence commit.
Quotes with DESCRY (2)
There is in certain ancient things a trace Of some dim essence --More than form or weight; A tenuous aether, indeterminate, Yet linked with all the laws of time and space. A faint, veiled sign of continuities That outward eyes can never quite descry; Of locked dimensions harboring years gone by, And out of reach except for hidden keys.
The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark of divinity which we call Myself; when clodhoppers and peasants, and tramps and thieves, and millionaires and -- sometimes -- Negroes, became throbbing souls whose warm pulsing life touched us so nearly that we half gasped with surprise, crying, "Thou too! Hast Thou seen Sorrow and the dull waters of Hopelessness? Hast Thou known Life?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1979–2023).