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DISCERN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does discern mean?

• DISCERN (verb)
The verb DISCERN has 1 sense:

1. detect with the senses

Familiarity information: DISCERN used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DISCERN (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Detect with the senses

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

discern; make out; tell apart; distinguish; pick out; recognise; recognize

Context 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

"Discern" entails doing...:

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discern"):

resolve (make clearly visible)

discriminate (distinguish)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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