[ UK /dɪsˈɜːn/ ]
[ US /dɪˈsɝn/ ]
VERB
  1. detect with the senses
    I can't make out the faces in this photograph
    The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
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How To Use discern In A Sentence

  • After squinting in an attempt to discern a couple of features to make the object recognizable, he began walking swiftly towards it.
  • an essay with a meaning that was not always discernible
  • For his part Ken remained faithful to the evidence as he saw it, and to truth when it could be discerned.
  • This sure seems a bonanza opportunity for both designers and customers with a discerning eye.
  • In fact, all three trends are already discernible. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The difference between the two is readily discernible.
  • But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein. David Elginbrod
  • My eyes can discern ten million colours, it seems. Times, Sunday Times
  • What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation.
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