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break ground

verb as in plow

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For 18-24 months, it was difficult to break ground on new projects, because builders couldn't get the financing.

And Bobroff has raised $12.6 million dollars to break ground on the site where her school is supposed to be standing.

In your boots you will be unable to stand firm; you will run the risk of slipping every time that you break ground.

I know your style of fighting men, Crane; you want to make me break ground, and drive me step by step round the garden.

On the 10th of the same month the Bengal division was to break ground from Ferozepore.

The two other slaves complied with him; so they began to break ground with the tools they had brought for that purpose.

Lowndes, old man, go out and tell the coolies to break ground next to Jevins's grave.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to break ground, such as: commence, create, do, establish, found, and go ahead.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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