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Definition of Discover

Discover

  1. To uncover.
  2. 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. 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. To manifest without design; to show.
  5. To explore; to examine.
  6. To discover or show one's self.

Discover Quotations

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Soren Kierkegaard Quote
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Discover Translations

discover in Afrikaans is ontdek
discover in Danish is opdage
discover in Dutch is ontdekken
discover in Italian is scoperchiare, scoprire
discover in Latin is invenio, expiscor
discover in Norwegian is oppdage
discover in Portuguese is descubra
discover in Spanish is descubrir

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