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Initiated
Answer for the clue "Initiated ", 5 letters:
begun
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Word definitions for begun in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Begin \Be*gin"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Began , Begun ; p. pr. & vb. n. Beginning .] [AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D. & G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. [root]3 See Gin to begin.] ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of begin .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (past participle of begin English) 2 (context obsolete English) (en-simple past of: begin ) (17th-20th c.)
Usage examples of begun.
At 1940 hours last night, the centrifuge had begun to emit fine tendrils of smoke.
Behind the wheel the fat photographer had begun to weep at the sight of the dark Ford growing in the rearview mirror.
He had not really begun to understand the concept of naming until he was four.
Palmer had begun to read the soothing copy he had been handed ten minutes before by an army noncom, a coup took place.
Then a slow smile came to his face and he had upended the gascan and he had run straight up the center aisle with it, the gas spraying out, all the way from the vestibule to the altar he had run, like a groom late to his own wedding and so eager that he had begun to spray hot fluid more properly meant for his soon-to-be marriage bed.
She had been laughing and chatty and gay when they started out, but coming back she had begun to be old.
Only yesterday, after she had begun cautiously to hope that no one was left in Lodi but her, she had seen a gross and drunken man, a hippie man in a T-shirt that said I GAVE UP SEX AND DRINKING AND IT WAS THE SCARIEST 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE, wandering up the street with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.
He had an oddly piebald look, because his hair had begun to fall out in clumps.
Lloyd had vaguely begun to grasp the symbolic, talismanic power of THE KEY.
By that evening his entire right leg was throbbing like a rotten tooth, and under the skin he could see the telltale red lines of blood poisoning radiating out from the wound, which had only begun to scab over.
Even his eyesight had begun to wham in and out a little, making dots of light race across his field of vision.
A fog of nostalgia had already begun to creep over those few days between Shoyo and May, before Tom and responsibility.
She had begun to wonder if Harold might not just go crackers some night and start blazing away with his two pistols.
At a quarter grain the dreams had begun to creep back in, so they held the dosage at a half.
Harold had begun to make her acutely uncomfortable almost all of the time.