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find (FIGHND) (verb)
1. To discover something or someone without planning or trying to: Susan was happy that she was able to find the money that she dropped on the sidewalk.
2. To get or to discover something or someone that a person is looking for: Sometimes it can take days to find a key that has been lost.
2. To get or to discover something or someone that a person is looking for: Sometimes it can take days to find a key that has been lost.
fined (FIGHND) (verb)
To require someone to pay a specified sum of money as a punishment: Jason was fined $100 for speeding within the city limits.
The prosecutor was determined to find the man guilty of speeding and the judge fined the man and suspended his driving license for two months.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group F; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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(Trying to find solutions to two life-robbing diseases: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's)
Word Entries containing the term:
“find”
find one's tongue
To be able to speak; especially, after a period during which one has been too afraid or too modest to talk: Shirley found her tongue agaom after she left the classroom at school with her mother.
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Tongue Idioms
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I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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Word Entries at Get Words:
“find”
find
An individual artifact, often one of some significance.
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Archeology, Archaeology
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(the first Latin words to find their way into the English language owe their adoption to the early contact between the Roman and the Germanic tribes on the European continent and Greek came with Latin and French while others were borrowed directly; especially, in the fields of science and technology)