BEGIN meaning: Start or initiate something; commence

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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.

Opposite:

end, conclude, finish, cease, terminate

Types:

start, commence, initiate, launch, kick off, get underway, get under way, get going, get started, more...

Phrases:

begin with, begin on, begin again, Menachem Begin, to begin with, more...

Adjectives:

prime, israeli, former, late, unknown, how, likud, last, procedure, perform, irgun

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