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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to establish the foundation of something;

e.g. The university was founded in 1967.

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Similar Words

Begin

Constitute

Determined

Dugout

Establish

Gutter

Inaugurate

Initiate

Innovate

Institute

Introduce

Launch

Learned

Met

Onto

Pioneer

Plant

Refound

Reinitiate

Reinstitute

Setup

Start

Underlie

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Opposite Words

Abate

Abolish

Abrogate

Annihilate

Annul

Avoid

Cancel

Countermand

Cream

Decimate

Defund

Demolish

Desolate

Destroy

Devastate

Dissolve

End

Extinguish

Finish

Halt

Invalidate

Lost

Negate

Nuke

Null

Nullify

Override

Pulverize

Quash

Raze

Repeal

Rescind

Ruin

Scotch

Set-aside

Shatter

Smash

Stop

Terminate

Total

Vacate

Vaporize

Void

Waste

Wrack

Wreck

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Related Words

Arrange

Assemble

Author

Base

Beget

Begin

Breed

Bring

Build

Catalyze

Cause

Chosen

Commence

Conceive

Concoct

Condemned

Confect

Construct

Contrive

Create

Damned

Deliquesce

Depend

Determined

Develop

Devise

Distinguished

Do

Effect

Effectuate

Embark

Endow

Engender

Enlarge

Erect

Expand

Fabricate

Father

Finance

Flux

Fund

Fuse

Generate

Ground

Hang

Hinge

Induce

Into

Invent

Invoke

Kickoff

Launch

Leadoff

Learned

Liquefy

Make

Makeup

Manufacture

Melt

Occasion

Oddity

Onto

Open

Or

Organize

Originate

Piece

Predicate

Produce

Prompt

Raise

Rear

Refound

Reinitiate

Reinstitute

Relaunch

Rest

Ride

Run

Saw

Setup

Spawn

Start

Stricken

Subsidize

Systematize

Thaw

Turn

Work

Yield

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