v. 25B6; verb
firemen discovered a body in the debris : FIND, locate, come across/upon, stumble on, chance on, light on, bring to light, uncover, unearth, turn up; track down, run to earth, run to ground.
eventually, I discovered the truth : FIND OUT, learn, realize, recognize, see, ascertain, work out, fathom out, dig up/out, ferret out, root out; informal figure out, tumble to; Brit. informal twig, rumble, suss out; N. Amer. informal dope out.
scientists discovered a new way of dating fossil crustaceans : HIT ON, come up with, invent, originate, devise, design, contrive, conceive of; pioneer, develop.