find out
Verb
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Verb
find out (third-person singular simple present finds out, present participle finding out, simple past and past participle found out)
- (idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- I don't know who the twenty-first president of the United States was, but it should be very easy to find out.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC ↗:
- "Why shouldn't somethin' new and wonderful lie in such a country? And why shouldn't we be the men to find it out?"
- To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- He had been fiddling the books for years, but finally he was found out.
- To uncover a weakness in (someone).
- He may cope with the multiple choice questions, but the written exam will find him out.
- If you don't try, you do not find it out.
- (archaic) To discover (something), as by perceiving or coming upon it.
- French: découvrir, savoir, apprendre, renseigner, comprendre
- German: herausfinden, erfahren
- Italian: scoprire
- Portuguese: descobrir
- Russian: узнава́ть
- Spanish: descubrir, averiguar, salir de dudas
- French: trahir
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