begin

begin has 16 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. i.. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
• v. i.. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
• v. t.. To enter on; to commence.
• v. t.. To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
• n.. Beginning.
• n.. 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)
• v.. 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"
• v.. 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"
• v.. begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began
• v.. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"
• v.. 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"
• v.. 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"