found

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 344.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of find
2. noun Food and lodging; board.
3. verb To start (an institution or organization).
4. verb To begin building. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. verb To use as a foundation; to base.
6. verb To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
7. verb To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
8. noun The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

Similar words

base launch set up constitute institute establish ground plant recovered contained

Often followed by

in that to the a it on himself out

Word family

find founded founder founders founding founds