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descry-verb [di-skrahy]
1. to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy: The lookout descried land.
2. to discover; perceive; detect.

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Upon close scrutiny, he descried that she had been lying to her all along.

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Date: 2007-05-06 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cobraqueen-22.livejournal.com
"ALOOF upon the day's immeasured dome,
He holds unshared the silence of the sky.
Far down his bleak, relentless eyes descry
The eagle's empire and the falcon's home—"
--"The Black Vulture" by George Sterling
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