| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To come into being: arise, begin, commence, start. See START. 2. To have as one's home or place of origin: come, hail2. See START. 3. To begin to appear or develop: appear, arise, commence, dawn, emerge. See START. 4. To bring into existence formally: constitute, create, establish, found, institute, organize, set up, start. See START. 5. To bring into currency, use, fashion, or practice: introduce, launch. See START. 6. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idioms: give birth (or rise) to. See MAKE. 7. To have as a source: arise, come, derive, emanate, flow, issue, proceed, rise, spring, stem, upspring. See START.
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