Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to describe
Participle: described
Gerund: describing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
I | describe |
you | describe |
he;she;it | describes |
we | describe |
you | describe |
they | describe |
Perfect
I | have described |
you | have described |
he;she;it | has described |
we | have described |
you | have described |
they | have described |
Past
I | described |
you | described |
he;she;it | described |
we | described |
you | described |
they | described |
Pluperfect
I | had described |
you | had described |
he;she;it | had described |
we | had described |
you | had described |
they | had described |
Future
I | will describe |
you | will describe |
he;she;it | will describe |
we | will describe |
you | will describe |
they | will describe |
Future Perfect
I | will have described |
you | will have described |
he;she;it | will have described |
we | will have described |
you | will have described |
they | will have described |
Subjunctive
Present
I | describe |
you | describe |
he;she;it | describe |
we | describe |
you | describe |
they | describe |
Perfect
I | have described |
you | have described |
he;she;it | have described |
we | have described |
you | have described |
they | have described |
Imperfect
I | described |
you | described |
he;she;it | described |
we | described |
you | described |
they | described |
Pluperfect
I | had described |
you | had described |
he;she;it | had described |
we | had described |
you | had described |
they | had described |
Conditional
Present
I | would describe |
you | would describe |
he;she;it | would describe |
we | would describe |
you | would describe |
they | would describe |
Perfect
I | would have described |
you | would have described |
he;she;it | would have described |
we | would have described |
you | would have described |
they | would have described |
Imperative
you | describe |
we | Let's describe |
you | describe |
Verbs conjugated like 'describe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'describe'
descrive,
escribe,
rescribe,
ascribe,
decrime,
destrie,
destripe,
discrive,
exscribe,
inscribe,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English descriven, from Old French descrivre, from Latin dēscrībō (“I copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”), from dē (“off”) + scrībō (“write”); see scribe and shrive. Displaced native Old English āmearcian. See: Old French '
descrivre', Latin '
dēscrībō'.
Verbs referencing "describe"
Scots describe, Cebuano deskrayb.
Sample Sentences
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Not sea-sick, be it understood, in the ordinary acceptation of the term: I wish I had been: but in a form which I have never seen or heard described, though I have no doubt it is very common. I lay there, all the day long, quite coolly and contentedly; with no sense of weariness, with no desire to get up, or get better, or take the air; with no [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Her name is Laura Bridgman. ‘She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on the twenty-first of December, 1829. She is described as having been a very sprightly and pretty infant, with bright blue eyes. She was, however, so puny and feeble until she was a year and a half old, that her parents hardly hoped to rear her. She [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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A further account has been published by Dr. Howe, since the report from which I have just quoted. It describes her rapid mental growth and improvement during twelve months more, and brings her little history down to the end of last year. It is very remarkable, that as we dream in words, and carry on [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I have been thus particular in describing her, because she will serve to exemplify the physician 's manner of acquiring and retaining the confidence of his patients.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Every patient in this asylum sits down to dinner every day with a knife and fork; and in the midst of them sits the gentleman, whose manner of dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced to an absolute certainty, and is found, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of; are appealed to, as members of the great human family, however afflicted, indigent, or fallen; are ruled by the strong Heart, and not by the strong (though immeasurably weaker ) Hand. I have described them at some length; firstly, because their worth demanded it; and secondly, because I mean to take them for a model, and to content myself with saying of others we may come to, whose design and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I wish by this account of them, imperfect in its execution, but in its just intention, honest, I could hope to convey to my readers one-hundredth part of the gratification, the sights I have described, afforded me.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] assemblage of his hearers, and pictured the wonder of the church at their presumption in forming a congregation among themselves, he stopped short with his Bible under his arm in the manner I have described, and pursued his discourse after this manner:
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I made acquaintance with an American railroad, on this occasion, for the first time. As these works are pretty much alike all through the States, their general characteristics are easily described.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] their hospital, or boarding-house for the sick: it is the best house in those parts, and was built by an eminent merchant for his own residence. Like that institution at Boston, which I have before described, it is not parcelled out into wards, but is divided into convenient chambers, each of which has all the comforts of a very comfortable home. The principal medical attendant resides under the same [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)