Meaning & use
invent
To create or design something new that did not previously exist.
See it in a sentence
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone in 1876.
The children invented a new game using only a ball and some chalk.
A note on using this word
Invent implies genuine originality, whereas "discover" refers to finding something that already existed but was previously unknown.
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