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to take the first step in (a process or course of action)<she began walking to school>Synonymscommence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), get off, kick off, launch, open, start, strike (into)Related Wordscreate, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; adopt, embrace, take on, take up; establish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawnPhrasesget to, set aboutNear Antonymscease, desist, discontinue, halt, lay off, quit, stop; close, complete; abandon, forsake, leave; abolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase outAntonymsconclude, end, finish, terminate
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to come into existence<the storm began late in the day and lasted all night>Synonymsarise, commence, dawn, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, startRelated Wordsbe, breathe, exist, live, subsist; appear, arrive, emerge; continue, endure, last, persist, surviveNear Antonymsconclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate; disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish; depart, die, expire, pass away, perishAntonymscease, end, stop
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