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Definition
to notice or understand something — often something that is not obvious
- I felt as if I'd been standing on the deck of a ship when an enormous, dark, and dangerous shape passed beneath the hull—a shape almost discernible, then simply gone.p. 134.6
- I watched, petrified, until I discerned the slightest expansions and contractions in the wrappings around their chests.p. 269.1
- The Colossus stared down at us, perhaps trying to discern whether we were dying in agony yet or needed some additional pain.p. 321.3
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