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Definition of find : 1. Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
2. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill ( of indictment) against an accused person.
3. To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
4. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
5. To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
6. To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
7. To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
8. To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
9. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
10. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
11. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.

Synonyms:

husking, muster up, kick downstairs, take care, comment, pay off, comprehend, go up, sustain, make sense of something, get, convalesce, begin, watch over, come down, aline, follow, control, become, set out, construe, pick up, project, recuperate, break, queue up, encounter, stripping, denudation, dress, rein, the sublime, interpret, get down, insure, measure, windfall, take, materialise, ferret out, puzzle, have, go, stumble across, risk, get word, go on, move up, reign, incur, remark, bump, aim, draw, beget, come upon, inspiration, align, mystify, produce, fit in, track down, bring, call up, understand, meet, start out, derive, tingle, finding, harness, bugger off, ensure, feel, recover, square up, let, discovery, fancy, engender, influence, go back, find (the) time, date, lift, go out, materialize, govern, define, cause, view, chance on, invent, mention, get the idea, examine, settle, distinguish, get under one's skin, contract, scram, mother, mold, attend, ascertain, rise up, commit yourself, read up on, conceive, beat, realise, develop, put aside, key out, fix, retrieve, allow, befall, picture, pass, welcome, catch, acquire, specify, bump into, happen on, sense, gamble, grow, receive, flummox, palpate, divulge, key, arrive, fall upon, induce, baffle, dream, name, burn, note, come on, give away, go steady, take a chance, stupefy, amaze, limit, undergo, let yourself go, model, get together, keep, spare, sum up, adventure, fall/fit into place, let out, arise, take in, describe, ascertainment, acquisition, let on, make up one's mind, point out, fall out, dominate, get a line, arrive at, buzz off, respect, reckon, find out, discern, rise, gather, queue, masterpiece, happen upon, scrape, check, accept, regain, see to it, think, give up to, prevail, work out, visualise, light on, possess, visit, deduce, relegate, thoroughbred, observe, capture, drive, surface, attain, get hold, come up with, pose, stick, suffer, recollect, line-up, fetch, play, assure, conceptualize, recall, come up, maintain, baring, bring forth, unwrap, take on, regard, overflow, run into, see the light, scratch, squeeze in, shape, walk away with, figure, phenomenon, muster, hear, hold, happen, invite, escort, learn, keep an eye on, acknowledge, dumbfound, predominate, watch, call back, scrape up, hazard, come by, gain, generate, make up your mind, tumble on, conclude, adjust, infer, descry, uprise, draw a conclusion/an inference, bewilder, be reared on something, knock, start, obtain, come, nonplus, come about, convey, bob up, remember, have a feel for something, make, classic, know, go through, strike, see, finger, hit on, taste, map, stimulate, teach, take chances, summon, gravel, take note, mark, catch out, reclaim, sire, take place, father, marvel, abide by, come across, regulate, visualize, trace, ascend, set about, bonanza, endure, vex, experience, nurse, celebrate, miracle, light upon, find oneself, pass off, demote, bechance, commence, pay back, stumble on, arrest, decree, have time on your hands, rally, alight on, occur, run across, honor, perplex, chance, get wind, dig out, uncovering, honour, bring out, envision, look, chance upon, run a risk, recoup, hap, dislodge, image, witness, square off, notice, uncover

educe, identify, detect, solve, unearth, realize, disinter, fathom, unravel, dig up, elicit, recognize, unmask, discover, reveal, unriddle, disclose, breakthrough, expose

place, spot, establish, position, post, locate, station, pinpoint, situate, put, set, lay

mediate, pronounce, adjudicate, arbitrate, determine, appraise, judge, decide, assess, resolve, consider, rule, sentence, referee

Usage examples:

• But how did you know where to find me? - "The White Gauntlet", Mayne Reid.
• I hope I know better than to wish to find out what I was never meant to hear. - "A Very Naughty Girl", L. T. Meade.
• How do you find him? - "The Cow Puncher", Robert J. C. Stead.