Describe Dɪˈskraɪb Situation Man Verb Bre Current Political

• can you describe him to me?
• the current political situation in vietnam is described in chapter 8.
• the man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.
• jim was described by his colleagues as ‘unusual’.

describe

1. to say what somebody/something is like
• Can you describe him to me?
• The current political situation in Vietnam is described in chapter 8.
• The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.
• Jim was described by his colleagues as ‘unusual’.
• Describe how you did it.
• Several people described seeing strange lights in the sky.
• The picture shows a family gathered around a kitchen table.
• This is a picture/photo of a busy city street.
• In the foreground/background, we can see a group of protesters.
• In the bottom right-hand corner/top left-hand corner, there's a child sitting alone.
• On the left/On the right/In the middle, someone is standing with a bottle in his hand.
• In the cartoon, we can see two people looking at a newspaper headline.
• The cartoonist has drawn the man to represent a typical businessman.
2. to make a movement which has a particular shape; to form a particular shape
• The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish.
• The road describes a long loop around the town.

Extra Examples

• He described briefly what happened.
• He goes on to describe very vividly how Caesar was stabbed to death.
• He goes on to describe vividly how Lincoln was assassinated.
• Observers have described the situation in the country as ‘serious’.
• The shirt was variously described as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’.
• Their daily lives are described in detail.
• This process is fully described in section three of the book.
• Words cannot describe our feelings at that moment.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they describe
• he / she / it describes
• past simple described
• past participle described
• -ing form describing

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.