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say it: di-SKUHV-ur
discover is a verb meaning "discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of". It carries 8 recorded senses.
make a discovery
“She found that he had lied to her”
“The story is false, so far as I can discover”
find unexpectedly
“the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb”
“she struck a goldmine”
“The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake”
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
“The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold”
“The actress won't reveal how old she is”
“bring out the truth”
“he broke the news to her”
“unwrap the evidence in the murder case”
“The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for discover come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.