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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to start or begin;

e.g. The event is scheduled to commence at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.

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Similar Words

Actualize

Appear

Arise

Begin

Break

Come-on

Dawn

Engender

Form

Into

Kickoff

Launch

Leadoff

Materialize

Open

Originate

Spring

Start

Stricken

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Opposite Words

Abandon

Abolish

Abort

Call

Cancel

Cease

Close

Closeout

Complete

Conclude

Demolish

Depart

Desist

Destroy

Die

Disappear

Discontinue

Dissolve

Drop

End

Evaporate

Expire

Exterminate

Extinguish

Finish

Forsake

Halt

It

Knockoff

Leave

Perish

Quit

Recall

Repeal

Rescind

Revoke

Scrap

Scrub

Stop

Terminate

Vanish

Windup

Wrap-up

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Related Words

Arrive

Be

Breathe

Coalesce

Cohere

Continue

Create

Emerge

Endure

Establish

Exist

Father

Found

Generate

Inaugurate

Initiate

Innovate

Institute

Invent

Last

Live

Organize

Originate

Persist

Pioneer

Spawn

Subsist

Survive

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