Dictionary
verb : BEGAN
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" ;
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3. (
) set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" ;
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4. (
) begin to speak or say; "`Now listen, friends', he began" ;
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5. (
) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester" ;
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6. (
) have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month" ;
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9. (
) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war" ;
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10. (
) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade" ;
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