BEGINS meaning: Starts or initiates a process, activity

We found 15 dictionaries that define the word Begins:

General (12 matching dictionaries)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (begin)

▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To come into existence.
▸ noun:  (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
▸ Also see begin

Opposite:

ends, concludes, finishes, terminates, ceases

Types:

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Phrases:

begins at, begins on, charity begins at home, begins upon, life begins at forty, more...

Adjectives:

history, calcification, new, jesus, offensive, civil, part, cold, strong, therapy, beautiful

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