descrive
English
Etymology
Old French descrivre. See describe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈskɹaɪv/
Verb
descrive (third-person singular simple present descrives, present participle descriving, simple past and past participle descrived)
- (obsolete) To describe.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Let her by proofe of that which she hath fylde
In her owne breast, this Mothers ioy descrive
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for descrive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈskri.ve/
- Rhymes: -ive
- Hyphenation: de‧scrì‧ve
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