Usually means: Uncover something previously unknown or hidden.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. discover: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discover: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discover: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discover, discover: Wordnik
  7. discover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Discover, discover: Wiktionary
  9. discover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discover: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discover: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. discover: Dictionary.com
  13. discover: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DISCover, Discover (Why the Love Hurts), Discover (magazine), Discover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Discover: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. discover: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. discover: Rhymezone
  19. discover: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. discover: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. discover: Free Dictionary
  22. discover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. discover: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. discover: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discover: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Discover: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See discoverable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
verb:  (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
verb:  (transitive, law) To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
noun:  (US) Discover Card, a brand of credit card.
noun:  Discover magazine, a general audience science magazine launched in 1980.

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