Thesaurus: begin

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1. v. i. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
2. v. i. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
3. v. t. To enter on; to commence.
4. v. t. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
5. n. Beginning.
6. v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
7. v. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
8. v. set in motion, cause to start
9. v. begin to speak or say
10. v. be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
11. v. have a beginning, of a temporal event
12. v. have a beginning characterized in some specified way