begun

[ bih-guhn ]

/ bɪˈgʌn /

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verb

past participle of begin.

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OTHER WORDS FROM begun

half-be·gun, adjectivewell-be·gun, adjective

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beguile, beguiling, Beguin, beguine, begum, begun, be had, behalf, Behan, hard hit, be, hard put, be

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How to use begun in a sentence

Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
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Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.
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The economy has begun to add jobs, but the quality of those jobs is an increasing concern.
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By the late 1600s, chemists and herbalists had begun to concoct their own scientific mixtures for curing the hangover.
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The good news is, the government has already begun to play Moneyball in some areas.
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And he had waited so long for Grandfather Mole that he had begun to feel hungry again.
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The last three years I've been in the Judith Basin, and southern outfits haven't begun to come in there yet.
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Non-meerschaum smokers may not know what a delicate task this is, but once well begun the rest is comparatively easy.
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But the house will rarely be empty now that the shooting has begun, and there is always something going on in the neighborhood.
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Next is a higher court in which suits for all larger matters are begun and tried, as well as appeals from the lower court.
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British Dictionary definitions for begun

begun

/ (bɪˈɡʌn) /

verb

the past participle of begin

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