How to pronounce scry

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What scry means

verb

To look for signs of the future in a crystal ball

In a sentence: The fortune teller in the story would scry by gazing into a bowl of still water.

Where it comes from: It is a shortened form of the old word ascry, from an old French word meaning to cry out. The word descry, to catch sight of, also shaped it.

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