DESCRIBE


Meaning of DESCRIBE in English

verb

ADVERB

▪ accurately , exactly , in detail

Their daily lives are ~d in detail.

▪ aptly , well

▪ clearly , simply

▪ fully

This process is fully ~d in section three of the book.

▪ adequately

▪ briefly

He ~d briefly what happened.

▪ vividly

▪ variously

The shirt was variously ~d as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’.

VERB + DESCRIBE

▪ cannot

Words cannot ~ our feelings at that moment.

▪ be difficult to , be hard to , be impossible to

▪ go on to

He goes on to ~ vividly how Lincoln was assassinated.

Describe is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ adjective , ↑ article , ↑ chapter , ↑ critic , ↑ document , ↑ magazine , ↑ manual , ↑ metaphor , ↑ page , ↑ paper , ↑ paragraph , ↑ participant , ↑ passage , ↑ report , ↑ source , ↑ term , ↑ text , ↑ word , ↑ work , ↑ writer

Describe is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ approach , ↑ arc , ↑ background , ↑ characteristic , ↑ circle , ↑ effect , ↑ encounter , ↑ event , ↑ experience , ↑ experiment , ↑ feeling , ↑ horror , ↑ incident , ↑ instance , ↑ journey , ↑ nature , ↑ problem , ↑ procedure , ↑ relationship , ↑ scenario , ↑ scene , ↑ sensation , ↑ situation , ↑ state , ↑ strategy , ↑ symptom , ↑ technique , ↑ vision

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