Synonyms of begun

begun

verb

past participle of begin

1

as in commenced

to take the first step in (a process or course of action)

she began walking to work for exercise

Synonyms & Similar Words

• commenced
• started
• launched
• embarked (on or upon)
• fallen (to)
• set about
• entered (into or upon)
• got going
• opened
• led off
• got to
• struck (into)
• got off
• stricken (into)
• created
• gotten off
• kicked off
• initiated
• originated
• adopted
• invented
• generated
• inaugurated
• instituted
• founded
• established
• pioneered
• spawned
• organized
• innovated
• taken on
• taken up
• fathered
• embraced
• got down (to)
• got around (to)
• set up
• gotten around (to)
• gotten down (to)
• gotten round (to)
• got round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ended
• finished
• concluded
• ceased
• stopped
• terminated
• completed
• halted
• discontinued
• laid off
• closed
• quit
• left
• abandoned
• quitted
• desisted
• destroyed
• abolished
• knocked off
• extinguished
• demolished
• forsaken
• exterminated
• phased out

2

as in started

to come into existence

the storm began late in the day and lasted all night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• started
• originated
• commenced
• arisen
• been
• appeared
• arrived
• formed
• existed
• dawned
• lived
• set in
• sprung
• materialized
• engendered
• emerged
• broken
• actualized
• lasted
• continued
• breathed
• survived
• subsisted
• persisted
• come on
• endured
• coalesced
• shaped (up)
• cohered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stopped
• ceased
• ended
• concluded
• finished
• halted
• terminated
• discontinued
• disappeared
• quit
• died
• dissolved
• vanished
• evaporated
• quitted
• desisted
• departed
• expired
• perished
• passed away

3

as in founded

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

the religious sect was begun by a small breakaway faction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founded
• initiated
• constituted
• established
• pioneered
• instituted
• launched
• started
• inaugurated
• created
• introduced
• organized
• originated
• financed
• planted
• funded
• innovated
• set up
• devised
• constructed
• invented
• produced
• authored
• conceived
• developed
• manufactured
• thought (up)
• enlarged
• made up
• expanded
• concocted
• fathered
• contrived
• cooked (up)
• fabricated
• arranged
• subsidized
• relaunched
• endowed
• systematized
• reinitiated
• reinstituted
• refounded
• systemized
• put up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closed (down)
• shut (up)
• stopped
• ended
• finished
• abolished
• phased out
• halted
• nullified
• annulled
• annihilated
• terminated
• wrapped up
• rounded (off or out)
• wound up
• winded up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of begun

Footage and images has begun to surface on social media since the storms hit. —Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025

Rachel Laing, a spokesperson for Mayor Todd Gloria, estimated that since the start of last year more than 60 local fires had begun by encampments next to roadways. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025

Read Next North Carolina Mosquito season has begun in NC. —Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 31 Mar. 2025

The move, which has already begun, is again forcing the displacement of Palestinian civilians who returned to their homes in northern and southern Gaza strip after the ceasefire was announced in January. —Barak Ravid, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025

Negotiations over those parts of the agreement were supposed to have begun in February after some hostages were freed in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody. —Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2025

Season 3’s characters have begun to feel less like real people and more like caricatures at this point. —Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025

Aid workers say not only Palestinians, but their own staff have begun to fall into despair. —Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2025

Huawei has aggressively launched premium smartphones, including the first-ever trifold handset, and has also begun to slowly relaunch devices overseas. —Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025