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uncoveruncover /ʌnˈkʌvɚ/ ●●○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEuncover |
Present | I, you, we, they | uncover | | he, she, it | uncovers | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | uncovered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have uncovered | | he, she, it | has uncovered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had uncovered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will uncover | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have uncovered |
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Present | I | am uncovering | | he, she, it | is uncovering | | you, we, they | are uncovering | Past | I, he, she, it | was uncovering | | you, we, they | were uncovering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been uncovering | | he, she, it | has been uncovering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been uncovering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be uncovering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been uncovering |
THESAURUSdiscover by searching/chance► find to see or get something, either by searching for it or by chance: I found a wallet in the parking lot. Have you found your plane ticket yet? ► discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before: Some hikers discovered dinosaur bones near the river. ► locate to find the exact position of something: We couldn’t locate the source of the radio signal. ► detect to notice or discover something that is not easy to see, hear, etc.: The test can detect cancer at an early stage in the disease. ► uncover to discover something that has been kept secret or hidden: His daughter is trying to uncover the truth about his past. ► unearth to find out information or the truth about something that has been hidden for a long time: It was years before the full story was unearthed. ► track somebody/something down to find someone or something after searching in different places: Detectives finally tracked her down in California. ► trace to find someone or something that has disappeared: The police are trying to trace the person who left the baby at the hospital. ► turn something up informal to find something by searching for it thoroughly: The investigation hasn’t turned up any new evidence. ► stumble on/across (also come across) to find something by accident: Pye stumbled on the story when he was researching a book about New York in the early 1900s. 1to discover something that has been kept secret SYN discover: A search of their luggage uncovered two knives.► see thesaurus at find12to remove the cover from something |