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begin
English
- 🔊 Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
- 🔊 set in motion, cause to start“The U.S. started a war in the Middle East”
- 🔊 begin to speak or say“`Now listen, friends', he began”
- 🔊 begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language“She began Russian at an early age”
- 🔊 achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative“This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation”
- 🔊 begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object“begin a cigar”
- 🔊 have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense“The DMZ begins right over the hill”
- 🔊 have a beginning characterized in some specified way“The novel begins with a murder”
- 🔊 have a beginning, of a temporal event“WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland”
- 🔊 be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series“The number `one' begins the sequence”
- 🔊 take the first step or steps in carrying out an action“We began working at dawn”
Spanish
- 🔊 abrir las zanjas to begin
- 🔊 echar to begin
- 🔊 encentar to begin
- 🔊 principiar to begin
- 🔊 comenzar to begin, to commence