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What is the verb for descriptive?

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describe
  1. (transitive) To represent in words.
  2. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  3. (mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  4. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
  5. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “What most people discover is that they use the same words to describe both experiences.”
      “Even his allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined.”
      “Thus, an arc is described in Figure I from C which cuts the triangle at I and J.”
descrive
  1. (obsolete) To describe.
describes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Penelope describes what this means and the agony and pleasure of streams of jabberwocky issuing forth from a man of words.”
      “This paper describes novel results on the characteristics of three-party dialogues by quantitatively comparing them with those of two-party.”
      “The endosymbiotic theory describes how a large host cell and ingested bacteria could easily become dependent on one another for survival.”
descrives
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descrive
describeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe
describest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of describe
described
  1. simple past tense and past participle of describe
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Back home in Sydney, Habib took up the blind sheik's cause, organising a protest to support the jailed cleric whom he described as his teacher.”
      “In physics, the critical angle is described with respect to the normal line.”
      “Some analysts spoke about a second national election, others described the recent ballots as by-elections.”
descrived
  1. simple past tense and past participle of descrive
describing
  1. present participle of describe
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Here is the great American physicist Richard Feynman describing the success of quantum electrodynamics.”
      “While describing his contributions to fluid mechanics we should also note the contributions he made to the study of waterwheels and pumps.”
      “Perspicacity is an abstract noun describing a certain capacity of a certain capability.”
descriving
  1. present participle of descrive
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