BEGIN

Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

Example: "We began working at dawn"

• commence  16
• get  4
• get down
• set about
• set out
• start  5
• start out

• recommence  18
• strike out
• fall  7
• jump off
• • get to
  • auspicate  13
  • attack  12
  • launch  11
  • plunge  9
  • embark  14
  • enter  5
  • bestir oneself
  • get cracking
  • get going
  • get moving
  • get rolling
  • get started
  • get weaving
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• end  4

Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

Example: "The dmz begins right over the hill"

• start  5

• break out
• erupt  7
• bud  6
• break out
• • kick in
  • set in
  • dawn  8
  • originate  10
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• end  4

Set in motion, cause to start

Example: "The u.s. started a war in the middle east"

• commence  16
• lead off
• start  5

• jump-start
• jumpstart
• recommence  18
• inaugurate  11
• • introduce  12
  • usher in
  • set off
  • commence  16
  • embark on
  • start  5
  • start up
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• end  4

Begin to speak or say

Example: "`now listen, friends', he began"

Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

Example: "The number `one' begins the sequence"

Have a beginning, of a temporal event

Example: "Ww ii began in 1939 when hitler marched into poland"

Have a beginning characterized in some specified way

Example: "The novel begins with a murder"

• start  5

Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

Example: "Begin a cigar"

• start  5

Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

Example: "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"

Begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

Example: "She began russian at an early age"