describe

Describe is defined as to give details about something to someone.

(verb)

An example of describe is someone giving the police details about how their attacker looked.

See describe in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Origin: ME descriven < OFr descrivre < L describere, to copy down, transcribe < de-, from + scribere, to write: see scribe

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See describe in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb de·scribed, de·scrib·ing, de·scribes

To give an account of in speech or writing.
To convey an idea or impression of; characterize: She described her childhood as a time of wonder and discovery.
To represent pictorially; depict: Goya's etchings describe the horrors of war in grotesque detail.
To trace the form or outline of: describe a circle with a compass.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English describen

Origin: , from Latin dēscrībere, to write down

Origin: : dē-, de-

Origin: + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots

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