noun
Meaning 1
A cry or shout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scry
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/skɹaɪ/
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rhymes with -aɪ
verb
Meaning 2
To magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
Meaning relationships
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verb
Meaning 3
To use magical means to see or look into (something that is happening outside one's sight, e.g. inside a building or far away, or in the distant past, or future, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: more broadly
Topics: fantasy, video-games
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verb
Meaning 4
To descry; to see.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
To proclaim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 6
divine by gazing into crystals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Broader terms: read
History
Etymology
From Middle English ascry, ascrie, escrie, from Anglo-Norman ascri, from Old French escri.
From Middle English scrien, scryen, a shortened form of Middle English ascrien, from Old French escrier (“to cry out”). Influenced by Middle English descrien (“to descry”).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: гадая с кристал (gadaja s kristal) — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Czech: věštit — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Finnish: katsoa kristallipallosta — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Polish: wróżyć ze szklanej kuli — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Portuguese: prever — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Portuguese: antever — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Portuguese: futurar — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Spanish: agorar — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Spanish: augurar — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects
- Spanish: vaticinar — predict the future using crystal balls or other objects