Meaning & use
discover
To find something or learn a fact that you did not know before.
See it in a sentence
We discovered a tiny nest beneath the porch roof.
I discovered that the museum stays open late on Fridays.
A note on using this word
Discover can take a thing or a that-clause. It means something is new to the person finding it, not necessarily unknown to everyone.
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