Begun can be categorized as a verb.
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| begin - set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" | ||
| begin - have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000" | ||
| begin - have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" | ||
| begin - begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade" | ||
| begin - have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month" | ||
| begin - be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester" | ||
| begin - begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began | ||
| begin - begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade" | ||
| begin - 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"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war" | ||
| begin - take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" |
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| 1. | verb | As the American public gradually wearies of the Iraq crisis, some have begun worrying that the war could blow back on the US by creating the conditions for anti-American terrorism. | |
| 2. | verb | As an outgrowth of the meeting Leslie and I had with Scott and Hunter a couple of weeks ago, we have begun work to develop an electronic tool that would allow us to provide ongoing summaries of FERC gas activities, and possibly electric activities, in a format that can be linked to the Fundamentals intranet site used by the traders. | |
| 3. | verb | My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. | |
| 4. | verb | Since President Hu ordered state-owned oil firms to "go abroad" to ensure supply, they have begun drilling for gas in the East China Sea, just west of the line that Japan regards as its border. | |
| 5. | verb | The ACIA -- with participation by the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation and Sweden -- was begun in 2000. | |
| 6. | verb | Your love life will thrive for most of the year, and any relationship begun or reaffirmed in 2005 is very likely to be a lasting one. | |
| 7. | verb | IF you have NOT begun the Application process's NOW< you are about 2 to 3 years away from being approved by Immigration Canada. | |
| 8. | verb | "Have you finished?" "On the contrary, I have not even begun yet." | |
| 9. | verb | Well begun is half done. | |
| 10. | verb | The strain has begun to tell on his health. | |
| 11. | verb | Have you begun studying English? | |
| 12. | verb | This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates. | |
| 13. | verb | More and more doctors have begun to use the new medicine. | |
| 14. | verb | The tulips have begun to come up. | |
| 15. | verb | I could clearly see that the hard work had begun to tell on his health. |
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| As the American public gradually wearies of the Iraq crisis, some have begun worrying that the war could blow back on the US by creating the conditions for anti-American terrorism. |
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| As an outgrowth of the meeting Leslie and I had with Scott and Hunter a couple of weeks ago, we have begun work to develop an electronic tool that would allow us to provide ongoing summaries of FERC gas activities, and possibly electric activities, in a format that can be linked to the Fundamentals intranet site used by the traders. |
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| My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. |
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| Since President Hu ordered state-owned oil firms to "go abroad" to ensure supply, they have begun drilling for gas in the East China Sea, just west of the line that Japan regards as its border. |
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| The ACIA -- with participation by the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation and Sweden -- was begun in 2000. |
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| Your love life will thrive for most of the year, and any relationship begun or reaffirmed in 2005 is very likely to be a lasting one. |
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| IF you have NOT begun the Application process's NOW< you are about 2 to 3 years away from being approved by Immigration Canada. |
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| "Have you finished?" "On the contrary, I have not even begun yet." | |
| Well begun is half done. | |
| The strain has begun to tell on his health. | |
| Have you begun studying English? | |
| This is true partly because non-Westerners have begun to take pride in their own cultures and partly because those areas of the world where forks are not used have some of the highest birth rates. | |
| More and more doctors have begun to use the new medicine. | |
| The tulips have begun to come up. | |
| I could clearly see that the hard work had begun to tell on his health. | |