Found and Smelt

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Found verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

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Smelt and found are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smelt" instead a verb "Found".

Smelt verb - Extract (metals) by heating.

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Found and smelt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Found" instead a verb "Smelt".

Nearby Words: smell, smelted, smelting, smelly, smelter

You'd think that someone on Norrath would just get the idea to smelt down all the commonly found silver coins and just use that instead.

Source: Videogame / EverQuest II
The narrator comments that the pathologist would not have known the real reason had the person who found the first body 'not smelt bitter almonds in the room and been a fan of detective fiction'.

Source: Perfect Poison
Oddly, "Dwemer Metal" better fits the traditional description of orichalcum - it's a lustrous red-gold, an ancient and advanced civilization used it to make all their wonders, and it isn't found naturally, forcing players to smelt down items from Dwemer ruins for ingots.

Source: Orichalcum

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