BREAK GROUND

  

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BREAK GROUND

Specialty Definition: BREAK GROUND

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Literature

Break Ground (To ). To commence a new project. As a settler does. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: BREAK GROUND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beginning

Handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BREAK GROUND

English words defined with "BREAK GROUND": PiccageTail of the trenches, To break ground. (references)

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Expression: BREAK GROUND

Expression using "BREAK GROUND": To break ground. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BREAK GROUND

Language Translations for "BREAK GROUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lëroj (cultivate, ear, earth up, plough, plow, till), gërmoj (cave, dig, dig out, dig up, excavate, grub, hollow out, Mold, mole, mould, pick, poke about, rout). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разкопавам (break fresh ground, dig up, excavate, grub, pickax), копая (delve, dig, dredge, excavate, fossick, grub, hoe, mine, navvy, pickax, scoop, scoop out, shovel). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחפור (dig, excavate, grub, unearth), ל"תחיל (begin, commence, launch, open), ל"כין שטח. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

feloldja a hangulatot. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakbray oundgray

   

Russian 

  

раскапывать (unearth), распахивать землю. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prevrnuti zemlju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

empezar a construir. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bryta mark. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bir işe başlamak, toprağı kazmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

робити перші кроки. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BREAK GROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-k-n-o-r-r-u"

-3 letters: arboured, grandeur, grounder, reground, unbarred, unbraked.

-4 letters: adorner, aground, arbored, bandore, begorra, begroan, boarder, bondage, bordure, bounder, brander, broaden, broader, brokage, bunkoed, burgeon, dogbane, drunker, gnarred, grander, groaned, groaner, guarder, guerdon, gurnard, knarred, readorn, reboard, rebound, rondeau, rondure, rounder, unbaked, unbrake, unbroke, undergo, unraked, unrobed, urbaner.

-5 letters: abound, adorer, aerugo, arbour, ardour, argued.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-k-n-o-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: backgrounder.

 

+2 letters: backgrounders, groundbreaker.

 

+3 letters: groundbreakers, groundbreaking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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