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Verb (1)

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded)

1. (transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
   • “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

   Synonyms:

   establish

2. (transitive) To begin building.
3. (transitive) To use as a foundation; to base.
   • Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell...

Verb (2)

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded)

1. (transitive) To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
2. (transitive) To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
   • Whereof to found their engines.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Verb

find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or (dialectal) fand, past participle found or (dialectal) fand or (archaic) founden)

1. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
   • I found this shell on the beach.

   Synonyms:

   come upon, encounter, happen across, run across, catch, check, detect, determine, discover, disinter

2. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
   • I found my car keys. They were under the couch.

   Synonyms:

   localize, pinpoint

   Antonyms:

   lose, miss

3. (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.
   • I found you a new place to live
4. (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
   • Water is found to be a compound substance.
5. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
   • to find leisure; to find means
6. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
   • Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!

   Synonyms:

   gain, get, obtain, achieve, acquire, attain, collect, earn, gather, procure

   Antonyms:

   lose, forlese, leave behind

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