Verb: find out fInd awt
- Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
"find out if he speaks Russian";
- determine, check, see, ascertain, watch, learn
- Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
"I found out that she has two grown-up children";
- learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, get a line [informal], discover, see
- Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
"find out the product of two numbers";
- determine, find, ascertain
- Trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act
"She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks";
- catch out [informal]
Derived forms: finds out, finding out, found out
Type of: act, demonstrate, detect, discover, establish, find, move, notice, observe, prove, shew [Brit, archaic], show