begin

Meaning

1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
2. To be in the first stage of some situation
3. To come into existence.

make a start

make a beginning

embark on

enter upon

𐐺𐐨𐑀𐐮𐑌

ensue

raise the curtain

come into being

be the first

launch into

begin the performance

divide into

make preparations

offer itself

begin with

bully off

engage in

go on with

take measures

take the first step

be partway

cause to start

be inaugurated

open the curtain

play an overture

make a commencement

throw oneself at

address

collide with

crash into

disclose

drive into

hitch on

hook on

innovate

menstruate

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪˈɡɪn/

From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.

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