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startedverbpast tense of start to move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise)I started from my chair when I heard the sudden scream bolted, jumped, startled jerked, jolted, twitchedblenched, cringed, flinched, quailed, recoiled, shrank(or shrunk), spooked, squinched, wincedbounded, leaped(or leapt), sprang(or sprung)reacted, responded to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofstarted the impressionist movement in art began, constituted, established, founded, inaugurated, initiated, innovated, instituted, introduced, launched, pioneered, planted, set up authored, fathered, originatedconceived, concocted, contrived, cooked (up), created, devised, fabricated, invented, made up, manufactured, produced, thought (up)constructed, put updeveloped, enlarged, expandedendowed, financed, funded, subsidizedarranged, organized, systematized, systemizedrefounded, reinitiated, reinstituted, relaunched closed (down), phased out, shut (up) abolished, annihilated, annulled, nullifiedended, finished, halted, stopped, terminatedrounded (off or out), wound up(also winded up), wrapped up to cause to functiontrying to start the car on a frigid morning activated, actuated, cranked (up), drove, moved, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), set off, sparked, touched off, triggered, turned on kicked over, turned overcharged, electrified, energized, fired, fueled(or fuelled), generated, powered, pusheddischarged, launched, released, switched, trippedreactivated, rechargedaroused, excited, jump-started, kick-started, stimulated, vitalizedignited, incited, instigated, provoked, quickened, stirred upaccelerated, catalyzed, sped (up)(or speeded (up)), stepped up cut, cut out, deactivated, killed, shut off, turned off arrested, braked, checked, cut off, drew up, halted, jammed, stalled, stopped, stuckdecelerated, repressed, slowed, stunted, suppressed to come into existencethe fight started when one child tripped the other actualized, appeared, arose, began, broke, commenced, dawned, engendered, formed, materialized, originated, set in, sprang(or sprung) breathed, existed, lived, subsisted, wasarrived, came on, emergedcoalesced, cohered, shaped (up)continued, endured, lasted, persisted, survived ceased, ended, stopped concluded, desisted, discontinued, finished, halted, quit(also quitted), terminateddisappeared, dissolved, evaporated, vanisheddeparted, died, expired, passed away, perished to extend outward beyond a usual pointfrightened horses with starting eyes bagged, ballooned, beetled, bellied, billowed, bulged, bunched, jutted, overhung, poked, pooched(chiefly dialect), pouched, pouted, projected, protruded, stood out, stuck out, swelled domedblew up, inflateddilated, distended, expandedmushroomed, snowballedelongated, extended, lengthened, stretched compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, shrank(or shrunk) to take the first step in (a process or course of action)we'll be ready to start the concert in a moment began, commenced, embarked (on or upon), entered (into or upon), fell (to), got off, kicked off, launched, led off, opened, struck (into) created, generated, inaugurated, initiated, innovated, invented, originatedadopted, embraced, took on, took upestablished, fathered, founded, instituted, organized, pioneered, set up, spawnedgot around (to), got down (to), got round (to) got going, got to, set about concluded, ended, finished, terminated ceased, desisted, discontinued, halted, knocked off, laid off, quit(also quitted), stoppedclosed, completedabandoned, forsook, leftabolished, demolished, destroyed, exterminated, extinguished, phased out |