(~s, describing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
We asked her to ~ what kind of things she did in her spare time...
She read a poem by Carver which ~s their life together...
Just before his death he ~d seeing their son in a beautiful garden.
VERB: V wh, V n, V -ing
2.
If a person ~s someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
He ~d it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale...
Even his closest allies ~ him as forceful, aggressive and determined...
He ~d the meeting as marking a new stage in the peace process.
VERB: V n as n, V n as adj, V n as -ing