Verb

(head)

(descry)

Verb

(en-verb)

To see.

To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

* Shakespeare

Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.

* Milton

And now their way to earth they had descried .

* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

When I had passed the vale where my bower stood

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To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Verb

(head)

(decry)

Verb

(en-verb)

To denounce as harmful.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 99:

All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.

* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 474:

While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.

To blame for ills.