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1. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
   - detect, observe, find, notice
    
2. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
   - learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, see
    
3. Make a discovery, make a new finding
   "Roentgen discovered X-rays"
   - find
    
4. Make a discovery
   "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
   - find
    
5. Find unexpectedly
   - fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain
    
6. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
   - unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
    
7. See for the first time; make a discovery
   "Who discovered the North Pole?"
    
8. Identify as in botany or biology, for example
   - identify, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name

Derived forms: discovering, discovers, discovered

See also: discoverer, discovery

Type of: conceive, conceptualise [Brit], conceptualize, find, gestate, regain, sight, spy, tell

Encyclopedia: Discover