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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1. Jeff Roberts:

   We will then sit down and see what caused the issue to begin with, you know, ‘where did it originate?’ So that when we do re-districting again in 10 years, we don't go through this issue, with the voters getting in the wrong, misassigned precinct.

2. Harriet Martineau:

   Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

3. The Speech and Debate Clause:

   One potential hurdle that the committee must consider is a lawmaker citing the Speech and Debate Clause, which states that a sitting member of Congress is protected from certain inquiries and procedures that originate outside of Congress. But members on the panel and legal scholars alike do not see that as an issue.Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena.

4. 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.

5. Thomas Alva Edison:

   Great ideas originate in the muscles.