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单词 redescribed
释义

redescribe

verb

re·​de·​scribe ˌrē-di-ˈskrīb How to pronounce redescribe (audio)
redescribed; redescribing; redescribes

transitive verb

: to describe anew or again
especially : to give a new and more complete description to (a biological taxon)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Her own project is not to erase those incisions—or even, as a child might hope, to heal them—but to retrace and redescribe them. Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1806, in the meaning defined above

redescribed

verb

past tense of redescribe
as in summarized

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • summarized
  • outlined
  • touched off
  • suggested
  • traced
  • hinted
  • exhibited
  • illustrated
  • reported
  • recounted
  • summed up
  • described
  • drafted
  • reimaged
  • displayed
  • characterized
  • narrated
  • vignetted
  • represented
  • silhouetted
  • defined
  • recited
  • labeled
  • related
  • demonstrated
  • showed
  • delineated
  • depicted
  • told
  • rehearsed
  • sketched
  • painted
  • set out
  • portrayed
  • rendered
  • qualified
  • labelled
  • pictured
  • limned
  • imaged
  • drew

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • distorted
  • misrepresented
  • colored
  • falsified
  • twisted
  • perverted
  • warped
  • misdescribed
  • misstated
  • garbled
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