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If a person d________ someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.
Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'.
Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined.
He described the meeting as marking a new stage in the peace process.
word describe
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verb
If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened .
We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time.
She read a poem by Carver which describes their life together.
The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work.
Just before his death he described seeing their son in a beautiful garden.
If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.
Eriksson described him as 'the best player on the pitch'.
Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined.
He described the meeting as marking a new stage in the peace process.
If something describes a particular shape, it forms that shape or makes a movement that follows the line of that shape.
His pass described a perfect arc through the leaden sky.
inflections describesdescribingdescribed
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