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Definition of Found

Found

of Find

imp. & p. p. of Find.

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.

A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.

To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

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Found Quotations

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan

Found Translations

found in Dutch is baseren, grondvesten, funderen
found in Finnish is perustaa
found in German is aufgefunden, gefunden, gefunden
found in Italian is fondare, trovato
found in Latin is instituo, constituo
found in Portuguese is encontrado
found in Spanish is basar

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