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initiate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of INITIATE
1
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of <no one knows who initiated written language>
Synonyms begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start
Related Words author, father, originate; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up); construct, put up; develop, enlarge, expand; endow, finance, fund, subsidize; arrange, organize, systematize, systemize; refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch
2
to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to <initiated the new recruits in the unspoken laws of military conduct>
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