discover
/dɪˈskʌvɚ/ verb A2- To find or learn something for the first time. · Turning the corner, I discovered a lovely little shop. I discovered that they sold widgets.
- To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack. · This move discovers an attack on a vital pawn.
- To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
Plural discover · He/she/it discovers · Past discovered · Past participle discovered · -ing form discovering
Verb forms
- Base form
- discover
- He/she/it
- discovers
- Past
- discovered
- Past participle
- discovered
- -ing form
- discovering
From the library
But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks.
A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one.
“Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonapartist conspiracy has just been discovered.”
Should it not be found in the possession of father or son, then it will assuredly be discovered in the cabin belonging to the said Dantès on board the Pharaon.’”
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