Definition of discerned

"discerned" in the verb sense

1. spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart

detect with the senses

"The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"

"I can't make out the faces in this photograph"

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Quotations for discerned

Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder. [ Johnson ]

It is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure that the real character of men is discerned. [ Burke ]

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]

discerned in Scrabble®

The word discerned is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters discerned:

DISCERNED
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (16 words)

cinders, decider, decides, decried, decries, deicers, deniers, derides, descend, desired, discern, dresden, reddens, rescind, resided, sincere

 

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discerned in Words With Friends™

The word discerned is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters discerned:

DISCERNED
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (16 words)

cinders, decider, decides, decried, decries, deicers, deniers, derides, descend, desired, discern, dresden, reddens, rescind, resided, sincere

 

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