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  1. transitive verb To notice or learn, especially by making an effort: got home and discovered that the furnace wasn't working.
  2. transitive verb To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
  3. transitive verb To learn about for the first time in one's experience: discovered a new restaurant on the west side.
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  1. Middle English discoveren, to reveal, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discooperīre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin cooperīre, to cover; see cover.

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  1. from Middle English discovern, diskoveren, descuveren, also diskeveren (later modern English dial. diskiver), and contr. discuren, descuren (see discure), from Old French descovrir, descuvrir, descouverir, French découvrir = Provencal descobrir, descubrir = Spanish descubrir = Portuguese descobrir = Italian discoprire, discovrire, scoprire, scovrire, from Middle Latin discooperire, discover, reveal, from Latin dis- privative + cooperire, cover: see cover, v.
 

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