started

Meanings

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;
• set in motion, cause to start;
• "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"
• leave;
• have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense;
• bring into being;
• get off the ground;
• "Who started this company?"
• "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
• move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;
• get going or set in motion;
• begin or set in motion;
• begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job;
• play in the starting lineup
• have a beginning characterized in some specified way;
• begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object;
• "She started the soup while it was still hot"
• "We started physics in 10th grade"
• bulge outward;

Synonyms

• get down
• begin
• get
• start out
• start
• set about
• set out
• commence
• lead off
• depart
• part
• set forth
• set off
• take off
• originate
• initiate
• start up
• embark on
• startle
• jump
• go
• get going
• take up
• protrude
• pop
• pop out
• bulge
• bulge out
• bug out
• come out

Scrabble Score: 8

started is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

started is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

started is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

started is a valid Words With Friends word

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