Collocations for describe - verb

accurately, exactly, in detail
Their daily lives are described in detail.

aptly, well
clearly, simply
fully
This process is fully described in section three of the book.

adequately
briefly
He described briefly what happened.

vividly
variously
The shirt was variously described as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’.

cannot
Words cannot describe our feelings at that moment.

be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
go on to
He goes on to describe vividly how Lincoln was assassinated.

Describe is used with these nouns as the subject:
adjective, article, chapter, critic, document, magazine, manual, metaphor, page, paper, paragraph, participant, passage, report, source, term, text, word, work, writer

Describe is used with these nouns as the object:
approach, arc, background, characteristic, circle, effect, encounter, event, experience, experiment, feeling, horror, incident, instance, journey, nature, problem, procedure, relationship, scenario, scene, sensation, situation, state, strategy, symptom, technique, vision