discovered
dis-KUV-urd/dɪsˈkʌvɚd/UKdis-KUV-uhd/dɪsˈkʌvəd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of discover.
Explorers discovered the ruins beneath layers of jungle growth.
She had discovered the error before anyone else noticed it.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the simple past stands alone (they discovered it), while the participle follows have in the perfect or be in the passive (it was discovered). In older texts the form often carries discover's archaic sense of uncovering or making known. A plot discovered may simply be a plot revealed, and a head discovered is one bared, not one found.
discovered is a form of discover
discover, verb: To find or come to know something for the first time. Full entry
- Forms
- discoverdiscovers he/she/itdiscovering -ing formdiscovered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- discover → discovered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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