d 2 e 1 s 1 c 3 r 1 y 4
6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb catch sight of
originFrom Middle English descrien, descriven in the 14th century already had the dual sense of "to proclaim, announce, make known" and "to see, discern, discover". On the one hand, the Middle English word is a loan Old French descrier (“to proclaim, announce, cry”), from des- + crier (“shout, cry”); in this case, the word is a doublet of decry, which was loaned from the same French source in the 17th…
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