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divine

2 verb
     
Related topics: Folklore
divine2
1 [transitive] literary to discover or guess something
divine that
Somehow, the children had divined that he was lying.
2 [intransitive]RF to search for underground water or minerals using a Y-shaped stick:
a divining rod (=the stick used for this)
—diviner noun [countable]
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