Synonyms for originate
əˈrɪdʒ əˌneɪtorig·i·nate

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1. originate

   Synonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, set about, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

   Antonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, pause, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

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1. originate

   Synonyms:
   commence, spring, rise, start, initiate, invent, create, cause to be made, proceed, emanate

   Antonyms:
   prosecute, conduct, apply

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1. originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, growverb

   come into existence; take on form or shape

   "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

   Synonyms:
   turn, start, bristle, mature, rise, get, build up, prepare, stand up, climb up, uprise, maturate, acquire, go up, rebel, surface, lift, arise, spring up, farm, come up, grow, train, evolve, modernize, bob up, resurrect, ascend, initiate, develop, climb, heighten, make grow, break, get up, prove, germinate, move up, turn out, jump, raise, formulate, modernise, rear, produce, mount, rise up, wax, recrudesce, educate, explicate

2. originate, initiate, startverb

   bring into being

   "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

   Synonyms:
   start, initiate, rise, get, broach, get going, develop, uprise, commence, get down, take off, induct, bulge, embark on, part, arise, spring up, grow, pop out, go, depart, lead off, set off, startle, start up, bug out, begin, jump, bulge out, set about, pop, start out, set forth, lead up, protrude, come out, take up, pioneer, set out

3. originateverb

   begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.

   "The flight originates in Calcutta"

   Synonyms:
   spring up, rise, initiate, start, arise, uprise, grow, develop

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1. originateverb

   Synonyms:
   create, breed, bring into existence, be the author of, be the cause of, give rise to

2. originateverb

   Synonyms:
   arise, rise, begin, spring, proceed, emanate, flow, take its rise

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1. List of paraphrases for "originate":

   originates, originated, origin, come

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How to use originate in a sentence?

1. Catherine Bradshaw:

   With the big ice sheet on Antarctica like we have today, the predominant winds are known as katabatic winds, and these go from the land to the sea, they originate from the ice sheet where it is very high, very cold and very dry -- in fact Antarctica receives only a few inches of snowfall a year and is so dry it is classified as a desert.

2. June Jordan:

   Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

3. B. F. Skinner:

   Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

4. Michael Gural-Maiello:

   I do n’t think governments really have a place in telling parents how their children should be spending their time, china has a rotten record in technology in general. I ’d be far more worried about my son using apps that originate in China that collect data than I am about him playing Mario Kart.

5. Saida Caballero-Nieves:

   There have been suggestions that these monsters result from the merger of less extreme stars in close binary systems, from what we know about the frequency of massive mergers, this scenario can’t account for all the really massive stars that we see in R136, so it would appear that such stars can originate from the star formation process.