discover
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(verb) make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
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Synonyms: find |
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Related Words: discover, ferret out, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, rake up, see |
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(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Darwin found many new species on the Galapagos Islands" |
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Synonyms: find |
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Related Words: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, ideate |
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(verb) see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?" |
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Related Words: rediscover |
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(verb) as in in botany or biology, for example |
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Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" |
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Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
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Related Words: catch out, develop, find out, sight |
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(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The aution house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" |
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Synonyms: break, bring out, declare, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal |
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Related Words: babble, babble out, betray, bewray, blab, blab out, blackwash, blow, come out, come out of the closet, confide, leak, out, peach, sing, spring, talk, tattle, tell |
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(verb) get to know or become aware of; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" |
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Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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Related Words: ascertain, catch, discover, find, trip up, wise up |
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(verb) find unexpectedly: "she struck a goldmine" |
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Synonyms: chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
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Related Words: find, regain |
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