divine
verb/dɪˈvaɪn/
/dɪˈvaɪn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they divine | /dɪˈvaɪn/ /dɪˈvaɪn/ |
| he / she / it divines | /dɪˈvaɪnz/ /dɪˈvaɪnz/ |
| past simple divined | /dɪˈvaɪnd/ /dɪˈvaɪnd/ |
| past participle divined | /dɪˈvaɪnd/ /dɪˈvaɪnd/ |
| -ing form divining | /dɪˈvaɪnɪŋ/ /dɪˈvaɪnɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] divine what, whether, etc… | divine something (formal) to find out something by guessing
- She could divine what he was thinking just by looking at him.
- They had quickly divined that he was a fraud.
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- [transitive, intransitive] divine (something) to search for underground water using a stick in the shape of a Y, called a divining rod
Word Originverb late Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict’, from Latin divinare, from divinus, from divus ‘godlike’ (related to deus ‘god’).
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