Definition of "discovering" [discovering]

• Present participle of discover. (verb)

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• "Or you may decide that an excess of humility led him to downplay or omit his own seminal role in "discovering" electricity."
• "It's an expression of discovering the essence of taste."
• "After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."