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startnoun the point at which something beginsknew from the start of the game that he would win easily alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, threshold drawing board, first base, ground zero, square onecreation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, originationcradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspringdawning, openingadvent, appearance, arrival, debut(also début), emergencechildhood, infancy, youth close, conclusion, end, ending, omega cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream bolt, jump, startle jerk, jolt, twitchblench, cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, spook, squinch, wincebound, leap, springreact, respond to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofstarted the impressionist movement in art begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up author, father, originateconceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)construct, put updevelop, enlarge, expandendow, finance, fund, subsidizearrange, organize, systematize, systemizerefound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch close (down), phase out, shut (up) abolish, annihilate, annul, nullifyend, finish, halt, stop, terminateround (off or out), wind up, wrap up to cause to functiontrying to start the car on a frigid morning activate, actuate, crank (up), drive, move, run, set off, spark, touch off, trigger, turn on kick over, turn overcharge, electrify, energize, fire, fuel, generate, power, pushdischarge, launch, release, switch, tripreactivate, rechargearouse, excite, jump-start, kick-start, stimulate, vitalizeignite, incite, instigate, provoke, quicken, stir upaccelerate, catalyze, speed (up), step up cut, cut out, deactivate, kill, shut off, turn off arrest, brake, check, cut off, draw up, halt, jam, stall, stick, stopdecelerate, repress, slow, stunt, suppress to come into existencethe fight started when one child tripped the other actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, dawn, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring be, breathe, exist, live, subsistarrive, come on, emergecoalesce, cohere, shape (up)continue, endure, last, persist, survive cease, end, stop conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminatedisappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanishdepart, die, expire, pass away, perish to extend outward beyond a usual pointfrightened horses with starting eyes bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch(chiefly dialect), pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, stick out, swell domeblow up, inflatedilate, distend, expandmushroom, snowballelongate, extend, lengthen, stretch compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink to take the first step in (a process or course of action)we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, kick off, launch, lead off, open, strike (into) create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originateadopt, embrace, take on, take upestablish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawnget around (to), get down (to), get round (to) get going, get to, set about conclude, end, finish, terminate cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stopclose, completeabandon, forsake, leaveabolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out v.begin, commence, start, initiate, inaugurate, usher in mean to take the first step in a course, process, or operation.begin, start, and commence are often interchangeable.begin, opposed to end, is the most general.begin a trip began dancing start, opposed to stop, applies especially to first actions, steps, or stages.the work started slowly commence can be more formal or bookish than begin or start.commence firing commenced a conversation initiate implies taking a first step in a process or series that is to continue.initiated diplomatic contacts inaugurate suggests a beginning of some formality or notion of significance.the discovery of penicillin inaugurated a new era in medicine usher in is somewhat less weighty than inaugurate.ushered in a period of economic decline before the 12th century |