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Learner's definition of FOUND
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1
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to begin or create (something that is meant to last for a long time)
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establish
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found a colony/museum/college
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The college was founded in 1793.
2
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to provide support for something
— usually used as (be) founded
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see also unfounded, well-founded
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His suspicions were founded [=based] on nothing more than rumor.
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