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(verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds: "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" |
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Synonyms: feel |
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Related Words: conclude |
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(verb) become aware of who one is and what one wants to do in life; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" |
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Related Words: agnise, agnize, realize, recognize |
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(verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark" |
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Related Words: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach |
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(verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room" |
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Related Words: comprehend, perceive |
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(verb) obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college" |
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Related Words: acquire, get |
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(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
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Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen, hit |
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(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?" "I cannot find my gloves!" |
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Synonyms: regain |
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Related Words: acquire, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, feel, get, happen upon, light upon, locate, rout out, rout up, strike, turn up |
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Antonyms: lose |
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(noun) the act of discovering something |
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Synonyms: discovery, uncovering |
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Related Words: breakthrough, catching, deed, detection, determination, effort, espial, exploit, feat, finding, rediscovery, self-discovery, spotting, spying |
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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: discover |
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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) after a calculation, investigation, experiment, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" |
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Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
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Related Words: admeasure, count, enumerate, locate, number, refract, situate |
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(verb) decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" |
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Synonyms: rule |
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Related Words: judge, label, pronounce |
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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: discover |
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Related Words: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, ideate |
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(verb) perceive with any or all of one's senses; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; give rise to or be characterized by; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions" |
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Synonyms: see, witness |
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Related Words: catch, experience, go through, undergo |
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(verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" |
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Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
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Related Words: change, take |
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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, discover, notice, observe |
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Related Words: catch out, develop, find out, sight |
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(verb) get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" |
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Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
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Related Words: access, acquire, get |
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(noun) a productive insight |
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Synonyms: breakthrough, discovery |
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Related Words: brainstorm, brainwave, insight |
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(verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" |
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Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
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Related Words: acquire, get |
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