1. giving an account of someone or something in words; telling what something is like
Usage: present participle of ‘describe’

Examples

• She is describing her vacation to her friends.
• The witness was describing what he saw at the scene.
• He had trouble describing his feelings.
• The teacher is describing the experiment to the class.
• The book does a good job describing life in the 1800s.
• She kept describing the same event over and over.