find out
phrasal verbfind out (about something/somebody) | find out something (about something/somebody)
- to get some information about something/somebody by asking, reading, etc.
- She'd been seeing the boy for a while, but didn't want her parents to find out.
- I haven't found anything out about him yet.
- Visit our website to find out more.
- find out what, when, etc… Can you find out what time the meeting starts?
- find out that… We found out later that we had been at the same school.
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find somebody out
- to discover that somebody has done something wrong
- He had been cheating the taxman but it was years before he was found out.