simple past tense and past participle of describe
"The witness described seeing a red car flee the scene before the police arrived."
In plain English: Described means to tell someone what something looks like or is like using words.
"She described the accident to the police officer."
Usage: Use "described" to indicate that someone has spoken about or represented something in words, either as a completed action in the past or an ongoing state. It functions correctly when you say the subject told a story about an event or painted a verbal picture of a scene.
Derived from the Latin describere, this past participle combines de- (down) with scribere (to write), originally meaning to write down or depict in detail. The term evolved to signify giving an account of something through words or images.