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found

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of found

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name

Synonyms of found

begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start

Words Related to found

author, father, originate

conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)

construct, put up

develop, enlarge, expand

endow, finance, fund, subsidize

arrange, organize, systematize, systemize

refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch

Near Antonyms of found

abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify

end, finish, halt, stop, terminate

round (off or out), wind up, wrap up

Antonyms of found

close (down), phase out, shut (up)

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