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Commence Hostilities Crossword Clue

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99%7Exact Match!
verb

• commence hostilities

23%5Commence
noun

• Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

• set in motion, cause to start

• begin to speak or say

• be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series

• have a beginning, of a temporal event

• have a beginning characterized in some specified way

• begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

• achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

• begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

23%6Commence
verb

• go on board

• set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)

• proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

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New York Times29 Mar 2012 Down 48
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