Verb

(en verb)

(label) To begin, commence, initiate.

# To set in motion.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.

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# To begin.

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# (senseid)To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.

# To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).

# To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

#* Sir (1628–1699)

Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start .

To begin an activity.

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To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.

# To jerk suddenly in surprise.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

But if he start , / It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

I start as from some dreadful dream.

#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.

# To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.

#* Wiseman

One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

# To awaken suddenly.

#* (rfdate) (Mary Shelley)

I started from my sleep with horror

# To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?

To break away, to come loose.

* 1749 , (John Cleland), (w) (Penguin 1985 reprint), page 66:

we could, with the greatest ease as well as clearness, see all objects (ourselves unseen) only by applying our eyes close to the crevice, where the moulding of a panel had warped or started a little on the other side.

(nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.