All break ground synonyms
break ground
B b verb break ground
- do β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- inaugurate β to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin: The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power.
- prepare β to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- lead β to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
- launch β to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- make β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- go into β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- introduce β to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- go ahead β permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
- initiate β to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
- produce β to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- undertake β to take upon oneself, as a task, performance, etc.; attempt: She undertook the job of answering all the mail.
- set up β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- found β simple past tense and past participle of find.
- create β To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- open β not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- commence β When something commences or you commence it, it begins.
- smash β to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
- shove β to move along by force from behind; push.
- rake β inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.
- cultivate β If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
- bulldoze β If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
- reap β to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest.
- generate β to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- activate β If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- institute β to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- actualize β to make actual or real
- mount β to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- originate β to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- drive β to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- induce β to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- effect β something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- impel β to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- trigger β a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
- occasion β a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
- motivate β to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- cause β a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- instigate β to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- trench β Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ΛΚΙn Ι vi/ (Show IPA), 1807β86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
- rush β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- ridge β a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- till β up to the time of; until: to fight till death.
- farm β processor farm
- list β Friedrich [free-drik] /Λfri drΙͺk/ (Show IPA), 1789β1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- turn β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- push β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- harvest β Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- harrow β a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
- furrow β a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.