Start and Whips

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Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

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Whips is an antonym for start.

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

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Start is an antonym for whips in defeat soundly topic.

Instead, he waits for her to start to leave when it appears that he's not coming and than has a few dozen of his chi-blockers ambush her from the darkness with bola whips and subdue her in seconds.

Source: Combat Pragmatist / Western Animation
One of the most brutal fights of Pokémon had Ash's Bulbasaur and an opposing trainer's Meganium start off the fight with Razor Leafs, Body Slams, and Vine Whips that also included a lot of moving.

Source: Combat Breakdown
Leonidas also flat out tells Xerxes that (while he is prepared for a suicidal last stand), his one half-hope for victory is that it's only a matter of time until Xerxes's slave-soldiers grow to fear Spartan spears more than Persian slave-whips, and they'll start mutinying against him.

Source: A Father to His Men

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