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discover

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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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
    Christopher Columbus is famous for discovering the Americas.
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