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Start

/stɑːt/

To begin doing something

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Bernard started at these words.

Marian, starting to reach into the waste-basket, refrained.

"I'm not blaming you," Olivia starts to protest.

From Middle English starten, from Old English styrtan meaning to leap up, jump up, or start, from Proto-Germanic *sturtā meaning to leap upwards.

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