found

Plural: founds

Noun

• food and lodging provided in addition to money
  • "they worked for $30 and found"
• Food and lodging; board.
• The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
• A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Verb

Verb Forms: founded, founding, founds

• To establish or set up on a firm basis.
• set up or found
• set up or lay the groundwork for
• use as a basis for; found on
• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
  • "We found traces of lead in the paint"
• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
  • "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
  • "I found the movie rather entertaining"
• perceive or be contemporaneous with
  • "We found Republicans winning the offices"
• get something or somebody for a specific purpose
  • "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"
• make a discovery, make a new finding
  • "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
• make a discovery
  • "She found that he had lied to her"
• obtain through effort or management
  • "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"
  • "We found the money to send our sons to college"
• decide on and make a declaration about
• receive a specified treatment (abstract)
• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
  • "I found myself in a difficult situation"
  • "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
• get or find back; recover the use of
  • "She found her voice and replied quickly"
• succeed in reaching; arrive at
  • "The arrow found its mark"
• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
• simple past and past participle of find
• To start (an institution or organization).
• To begin building.
• To use as a foundation; to base.
• To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
• To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

Adjective

• come upon unexpectedly or after searching
  • "found art"
  • "the lost-and-found department"

Examples

• She managed to ’found’ a six-letter word right across the bonus squares, establishing a strong lead.

Synonyms

ascertain, base, bump, chance, come up, constitute, detect, determine, discover, encounter, establish, feel, find, find oneself, find out, get, get hold, ground, happen, incur, institute, launch, line up, notice, observe, obtain, plant, receive, recover, regain, retrieve, rule, see, set up, witness, discovered, repertitious

Antonyms

abolish, lose, lost, dissolve, ruin

Related Words

confound, foison, foundation, founder, foundry, fusion, morfound

Anagrams of found