Local English word record

discern

verb · 1 sense

detect with the senses

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Examples

  • The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
  • I can't make out the faces in this photograph

Word relationships

Synonyms

spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, pick out, make out, tell apart

Source and method

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Princeton WordNet 3.0