BEGUN

Definition: BEGUN

BEGUN

1. P. p. of Begin.

2. Of Begin

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BEGUN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Beginning

Begun; Verb: just begun; Verb:

Crosswords: BEGUN

It has already begun. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

The sands of time have already begun to pour against you. (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York I had just begun Laura's story when another of those detectives came to see me. I had him wait (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

And I want to know what it says to you that in the past seven weeks, 59% of Americans have begun to question your patriotism (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

You haven't even begun. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

We've only just begun to live (We've Only Just Begun; performing artist: Carpenters)

It's just a place in the sun where our love's begun (Because Of You; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Anders Bagge, Arntor Birgisson, Christian Karlsson, and Patrick Tucker)

And the day had just begun (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

The party has just begun (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

And I believe it could be, something good has begun (Peace Train; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

God has a thousand ways, where I can see not one; when all my means have reached their end, then His have just begun. (references; author: unknown)

The Buildings Already Begun (1967)

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun (1993)

UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)

We've Only Just Begun (performing artist: The Carpenters)

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

Books

• Boom! (Again: The First Computer Boom Is over the Next One Has Already Begun!) (reference)

• From Daniel to Doomsday: The Countdown Has Begun (reference)

• I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!: The Story of John Paul Jones: Hero of the American Navy (reference)

• Retirement: Your Best Years Have Just Begun (reference)

• The Good Work Begun (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Vitality Begun (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Here the disease has manifested itself as a cutaneous ulceration, which has begun to turn black, hence the origin of the name "Anthrax", after the Greek name for coal. Credit: CDC.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has begun a long-term program to monitor seasonal and ... Credit: NASA.

Photo #1 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, has begun the process of shedding its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. Credit: Fisheries.

At mid-construction, the main pools are already created but the streambank stabilization has not yet begun. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Work to stabilize the bank has begun. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An abandoned road within the Reserve was restored to its original wetlands elevation to reestablish sheetflow and tidal flushing. Within a few months of the restoration, the recolonization of native wetlands had begun. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

The Museum of Oceanography at Monaco begun by Prince Albert of Monaco. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 38, p. 49. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Severe erosion on this Palouse farm is evident where the new wheat crop has not begun to grow. Credit: Tim McCabe.

This three-story brick mansion was one of many great Georgian mansions built in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, during the eighteenth century. Begun in 1769 for Samuel Chase, a young lawyer and future signer of the Declaration of Independence, the mansion passed unfinished two years later into the hands of the wealthy plantation owner Edward Lloyd IV. Lloyd hired the renowned English architect and master builder William Buckland to complete the mansion. The elaborate carved details, including the windows, cornices, and doorways, are by Buckland. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if I might advise them in the case, they would do well not to search too much into the original of governments, as they have begun de facto, lest they should find, at the foundation of most of them, something very little favourable to the design they promote, and such a power as they contend for. (Second Treatise of Government)

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. (reference)

German, or "True," Socialism The Socialist and Communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expression of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie, in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love

The bells ceased as they had begun, together

About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently begun to fail

His hair was shorn, but bristly, for it had begun to grow a little, and seemingly had not been cut for some time

At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun.

The camp had begun to come to life

This same summer the pond has begun to fall again

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Even worse, nature had begun to intervene. (references)

Formal research on caregiving, begun in the early 1980's, is still young. (references)

Once encystment of the parasite has begun, treatment is for any symptoms. (references)

Business

The PGR has begun formal legal proceedings only in three of the seven cases. (references)

Many U.S. firms have already begun moving into this quickly growing industry. (references)

The sector is beginning to open up though and VNPT monopoly has begun to change. (references)

Children

Saudi Arabia

One major hospital has begun a program to detect, report, and prevent child abuse. (references)

Tunisia

Many cities, including the capital, have begun to install wheelchair access ramps on city sidewalks. (references)

Mongolia

In conjunction with efforts to counter violence against women, NGO's have begun to address the issue. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The trial had not begun by year's end. (references)

Bulgaria

Staffing of the EMC had not begun by year's end. (references)

Yemen

This process had begun by year's end, but the full implementation of the law is ongoing. (references)

Economic History

Georgia

Titling of agricultural land has begun. (references)

Mauritius

Small planters have barely begun derocking. (references)

Nigeria

MTN has begun service with about 100,000 line network. (references)

Human Rights

Egypt

Their trial had not begun by year's end. (references)

Jordan

The trials had not yet begun by year's end. (references)

Malawi

Four cities have begun pilot community service programs. (references)

Minorities

Spain

In June 2000, a court freed the two accused after they posted bond; their trial had not begun by year's end. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

However, some international NGO's have begun reconstruction programs for Roma, and refugee officials in the Federation also have begun to provide some assistance. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

A planning committee is required to submit a report regarding the progress of these plans to the Court in October 2002. No projects related to the planning committee had begun by year's end. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

Planting is believed to have begun. (references)

TAIWAN

Taiwan regulators have begun to address such unfair trading practices. (references)

Sri Lanka

The investigation into the mass graves in Chemmani, begun in 2000, continues. (references)

Political Rights

Comoros

The new military commission pledged its support for the reconciliation process begun by the February Accord. (references)

United Kingdom

In July the conflict intensified, when David Trimble, reflecting disquiet within his Ulster Unionist Party, resigned his position as First Minister, promising to resume office only after the IRA had begun weapons decommissioning. (references)

Algeria

President Bouteflika was elected in an April 1999 presidential election that was seriously flawed by the withdrawal 1 day before the election of all other candidates, who charged that the military already had begun to implement plans to produce a fraudulent Bouteflika victory. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

The European Union has begun drafting legislation regarding electronic waste. (references)

Syria

The World Bank Group's IFC, however, has begun to finance private sector projects in Syria. (references)

Armenia

The Lincy Foundation has begun funding loans under its $100 million Entrepreneurial Lending Program. (references)

Travel

Tunisia

THE TUNISIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BEGUN TO PLACE A GREATER EMPHASIS ON TEACHING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SKILLS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND THE USE OF ENGLISH IS BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD. (references)

Women

Malawi

Society has begun to take the problem of violence against women seriously. (references)

Yemen

The press and women's rights activists only recently have begun to investigate or report on violations of women's rights. (references)

Worker Rights

Belarus

The authorities have begun to recognize and address the problem of trafficking in persons. (references)

Guatemala

However, government efforts to improve the labor inspection system, begun in 2000, continued. (references)

Moldova

By year's end, work had begun to convert the four free enterprise zones in rural areas to EPZ's. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "BEGUN": not begun ♦ well begun is half done ♦ work begun. Additional references.

Ending with "BEGUN": re-begun.

Chinese 

开始 (Began, begin, Commence, Commenced, Commencement, Commencing, inaugurate, Inaugurated, Inaugurating, inception, start, started, starting, start-off). (various references)

Czech

příè.min. od begin. (various references)

Danish

paabegyndte boliger (housing starts, work begun), paabegyndt byggeri (housing starts, work begun), arbejdet er begyndt d.... (the work was begun on the). (various references)

Dutch

het werk is op ... aangevangen (the work was begun on the). (various references)

French

commencés, commencées, commencée, commencé. (various references)

German

begonnen, begann (began, commenced), angebrochen (opened). (various references)

Greek 

αόρ. του begin (began). (various references)

Hebrew 

מותחל (commenced, started). (various references)

Hungarian

megkezdődik (began, to begin), megkezd (began, commence, start, to begin, to enter on, to incept, to inchoate, to initiate, to start on, to throw off), kezdődik (began, to begin, to commence, to restart, to set in), kezd (began, begin, commence, set in, start, to begin, to commence, to set in, to take the water, to throw off, to turn it on), elkezdett (rough-hewn), elkezdődik (began, to begin, to commence, to take in, to tee off). (various references)

Italian

il lavoro è stato iniziato il (the work was begun on the). (various references)

Korean 

시작되는. (various references)

Pig Latin

egunbay.(various references)

Romanian

participiu trecut de la begin. (various references)

Russian 

от begin (began), начинать (began, begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, incept, kick off, launch, lead off, preface, prelude, set to, start, start off, starts, strike up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

particip proš. od begin. (various references)

Spanish

pp de begin. (various references)

Swedish

börjat. (various references)

Thai

กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ begin. (various references)

coeptam, coepto, coeptum, exorsus, ordita, orditus. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "BEGUN": misbegun, rebegun. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BEGUN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baguan, Baguin, beegen, Befu, begani, begen, Beggen, begina, beginn, begint, Begio, begln, begn, bego, Begob, begod, Begouen, begu, Beguin, begunk, Bengono, Bergue, besun, Bigena, Bredun, buagun, Bugojno, degun, regun, Segun. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bung, genu, unbe.

-2 letters: beg, ben, bug, bun, eng, gen, gnu, gun, neb, nub.

-3 letters: be, en, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: blunge, bunged, bungee, bungle.

+2 letters: beguine, blueing, blunged, blunger, blunges, bugbane, bungees, bungled, bungler, bungles, burgeon, rebegun.

+3 letters: beguines, bemusing, bludgeon, blueings, blungers, boughten, bourgeon, bugbanes, bunghole, bunglers, burgeons, burgonet, debuting, embruing, fungible, greenbug, misbegun, rebuking, rebuying, subagent, subgenre, subgenus, umbering, unbenign.

+4 letters: aubergine, becursing, bedaubing, bedumbing, beduncing, befouling, beguiling, begulfing, belauding, benumbing, biogenous, bludgeons, bourgeons, bucketing, budgeting, buffering, buffeting, buggering, bulleting, bumpering, bungholes, bunkering, burdening, burgeoned, burgonets, busheling, buttering, cumbering, debugging, debunking, embruting, fungibles, greenbugs, lumbering, neighbour, numbering, rebuffing, reburying, rebutting, redubbing, rubbering, subagency, subagents, subgenera, subgenres, subregion, subvening, unbandage, unbearing, unbelting, unbending, unbridged, upbearing.