discern
detect with the senses (Freq. 7) - The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards - I can't make out the faces in this photograph • Syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, pick out, make out, tell apart • Derivationally related forms: discernible, discernment • Hyponyms: resolve, discriminate • Entailment: perceive, comprehend • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody
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