"discover" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

discover verbo

discover + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 141
discover evidence • discover things • discover one's body • discover one's identity • discover one's talent • discover one's love • ...
verbo + discover
Kolokacji: 17
try to discover • begin to discover • shock to discover • want to discover • seek to discover • ...
discover + preposición
Kolokacji: 48
discover during • discover near • discover until • discover by • discover within • ...
discover + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 43
newly discover • quickly discover • accidentally discover • suddenly discover • eventually discover • finally discover • later discover • ...
(3) suddenly, gradually
Kolokacji: 2
(4) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(6) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(7) inadvertently, unexpectedly
Kolokacji: 2
  • The truth was inadvertently discovered that same night when a friend of Susan's came to dinner.
  • Medical researchers may have inadvertently discovered a perfect way to slow the indiscriminate use of sleeping pills in this country.
  • Seventeen years later, Quinn inadvertently discovered the case fixing.
  • Hunkering down beneath the bed, Andrew retrieved the casket he'd inadvertently discovered.
  • In the morning, they inadvertently discovered a geocache labeled with coordinates just as a rescue sheriff called their cell phone.
  • The location of the wreck remained a mystery until an underwater survey team inadvertently discovered the battleship in December 2007.
  • The boys became frightened by the unexpected return of the queen and quickly lost their way in the dark corridors, inadvertently discovering some long-forgotten rooms.
  • Chutki inadvertently discovers what Badki does for a living.
  • The access point was initially discovered inadvertently by his then-roommate, Paul Timmins.
  • Lisa inadvertently discovers the grave of William Bonney, a man who was killed at a young age by gun violence.
(8) experimentally, empirically
Kolokacji: 2

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