All discover synonyms

verb discover

• find — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
• unearth — to dig or get out of the earth; dig up.
• locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
• notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
• detect — To detect something means to find it or discover that it is present somewhere by using equipment or making an investigation.
• reveal — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
• devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
• hear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
• spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
• invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
• recognize — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
• see — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
• observe — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
• identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
• determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
• learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
• disclose — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
• realize — to grasp or understand clearly.
• design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
• glimpse — a very brief, passing look, sight, or view.
• originate — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
• debunk — If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
• pioneer — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
• conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
• sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
• contrive — If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
• perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
• ascertain — If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so.
• distinguish — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
• discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
• find out — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
• realise — to grasp or understand clearly.
• uncover — to lay bare; disclose; reveal.
• recognise — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
• bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
• come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
• ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
• look up — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
• turn up — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• dig up — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
• get wind of — hear rumours of
• get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
• nose out — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
• pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• smoke out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.