Synonyms for found
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1. found

   Synonyms:
   establish, institute, fix, set, build, set up, base, endow, rest, ground, plant, root

   Antonyms:
   disestablish, subvert, supplant, uproot

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1. foundadjective

   food and lodging provided in addition to money

   "they worked for $30 and found"

   Antonyms:
   missing, lost, wasted, mislaid, stray, misplaced, straying, squandered, gone(p)

2. foundverb

   come upon unexpectedly or after searching

   "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"

   Antonyms:
   straying, stray, squandered, lost, missing, gone(p), mislaid, wasted, misplaced

3. establish, set up, found, launchverb

   set up or found

   "She set up a literacy program"

   Synonyms:
   tack together, put together, set in motion, lay down, prepare, institute, instal, piece, tack, show, fix, establish, put in, base, gear up, put up, frame, entrap, make, arrange, ground, plant, give, order, erect, ensnare, raise, lay out, launch, pitch, prove, plunge, shew, ready, set up, demonstrate, put, effect, effectuate, install, rear, assemble, constitute, set, rig, build

   Antonyms:
   squandered, straying, misplaced, lost, gone(p), missing, stray, mislaid, wasted

4. establish, found, plant, constitute, instituteverb

   set up or lay the groundwork for

   "establish a new department"

   Synonyms:
   engraft, demonstrate, name, ground, implant, set up, install, be, set, base, institute, instal, launch, build, appoint, imbed, comprise, prove, represent, form, give, plant, shew, lay down, embed, establish, make up, bring, nominate, make, show, constitute

   Antonyms:
   lost, stray, gone(p), wasted, missing, mislaid, misplaced, straying, squandered

5. establish, base, ground, foundverb

   use as a basis for; found on

   "base a claim on some observation"

   Synonyms:
   demonstrate, ground, set up, install, strand, base, institute, instal, launch, build, prove, free-base, give, run aground, plant, shew, undercoat, lay down, establish, prime, anchor, make, show, constitute

   Antonyms:
   gone(p), lost, straying, stray, misplaced, mislaid, missing, wasted, squandered

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1. foundverb

   Synonyms:
   base, set, fix, place, ground, lay the foundation of

2. foundverb

   Synonyms:
   build, construct, erect, raise

3. foundverb

   Synonyms:
   establish, institute, originate

4. foundverb

   Synonyms:
   cast, form in a mould

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1. foundverb

   Synonyms:
   establish, plant, institute, cast, form, mould

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1. List of paraphrases for "found":

   discovered, find, concluded, observed, revealed, detected, encountered, noted, located, identified, finding, considered, discovery, consulted, determined, ruled, reached, seen, showed, recovered, got, uncovered, felt, spotted, noticed, declared, contained, recognized, deemed, struck, thought, saw, finds, shown

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1. Caleb Shumway:

   He was way down in the cave, in fact, the cave he was down in ... there was the initial level of the cave that we crawled into and found the first bone, and then the cave tunnels off to the side, and we found a bag, and then we actually found the actual body. It was over some more, and down even deeper into the ground.

2. Helen Keller:

   Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

3. Henry Brougham:

   It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

4. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

5. Tom Colbert:

   There were no prints found in the back of plane, they found 11 partial prints that’s all, sides, fingers, tips and palm. But no prints of value were found.