Start and Terminate

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Start

Start verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Usage example: started the impressionist movement in art
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Terminate is an antonym for start in topics: establish, begin.
Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

Terminate

Terminate verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Usage example: we need to terminate the discussion for this evening, but we'll resume tomorrow morning
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Start is an antonym for terminate in stop topic.
Nearby Words: terminal, termination, terminated, terminating, terminable
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Common collocations

life start life terminate life
business start business terminate business
project start project terminate project
family start family terminate family
Other words: relationship, series, show, cycle, game, battle, mission.

Both words in one sentence

  • Just Train Wrong Trains can only start or terminate in Paris, but not stop.
    Source: Just Train Wrong
  • The novel is portrayed as a translation of ibn Fadlan's writing that extended past the point where the real ibn Fadlan stopped (even having the end of the novel terminate just as another adventure seemed to start, indicating there was more yet to happen but the manuscript had been lost).
    Source: Direct Line to the Author
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