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beginverb to take the first step in (a process or course of action)she began walking to work for exercise commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, kick off, launch, lead off, open, start, 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 to come into existencethe storm began late in the day and lasted all night actualize, appear, arise, break, commence, dawn, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start 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 be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofthe religious sect was begun by a small breakaway faction constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start 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 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 |