discover

discover is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To uncover. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To uncover.
2. transitive verb. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
3. transitive verb. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
4. transitive verb. To manifest without design; to show.
5. transitive verb. To explore; to examine.
6. intransitive verb. To discover or show one's self.
7. verb. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

   "I learned that she has two grown-up children"

   "I see that you have been promoted"

   Synonyms: hear, learn, see

8. verb. identify as in botany or biology, for example

   Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, name

9. verb. make a discovery

   "She found that he had lied to her"

   "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

   Synonyms: find

10. verb. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

    "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"

    "The actress won't reveal how old she is"

    Synonyms: break, disclose, divulge, expose, reveal, unwrap

11. verb. make a discovery, make a new finding

    "Roentgen discovered X-rays"

    "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

    Synonyms: find

12. verb. see for the first time; make a discovery

    "Who discovered the North Pole?"

13. 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"

    Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe

14. verb. find unexpectedly

    "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"

    "she struck a goldmine"

    Synonyms: attain, strike

Synonyms

hear, learn, see, describe, distinguish, identify, key, name, find, break, disclose, divulge, expose, reveal, unwrap, detect, notice, observe, attain, strike

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in discover:

codrives, divorces

Common word forms

discovers, discovered, discoverer, discovering, discoverable

Words from these letters

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