discover

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /dɪsˈkʌvə/, SAMPA: /dIs"kVv@/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /dɪsˈkʌvɚ/, SAMPA: /dIs"kVv@`/

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Verb

Plain form discover

Third-person singular discovers

Past tense discovered

Past participle discovered

Present participle discovering

Discover is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

1. (transitive) To find a new idea that was not known before, or to find a thing that was not known about before.

   Doctors want to discover a cure for cancer.

   Einstein discovered that ${\displaystyle E=mc^{2}}$

   Christopher Columbus is famous for discovering the Americas.

Related words

• discoverer
• discovery