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See definition of break ground on Dictionary.com
  • as inbegin
  • as inbreak the ice
  • as inplow

synonyms for break ground

  • commence
  • create
  • do
  • establish
  • found
  • go ahead
  • go into
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • introduce
  • launch
  • lead
  • make
  • open
  • prepare
  • produce
  • set up
  • undertake
  • activate
  • actualize
  • cause
  • drive
  • effect
  • eventuate
  • generate
  • impel
  • induce
  • instigate
  • institute
  • motivate
  • mount
  • occasion
  • originate
  • trigger
  • break the ice
  • bring about
  • bring to pass
  • embark on
  • enter on
  • enter upon
  • get going
  • give birth to
  • give impulse
  • lay foundation for
  • make active
  • plunge into
  • set about
  • set in motion
On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to break ground, such as: commence, create, do, establish, found, and go ahead.

antonyms for break ground

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  • cease
  • close
  • conclude
  • destroy
  • end
  • fail
  • finish
  • halt
  • ignore
  • lose
  • neglect
  • ruin
  • stop
  • check
  • discourage
  • dissuade
  • prevent
  • repress
  • complete
  • consummate
  • die
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    How to use break ground in a sentence

    In your boots you will be unable to stand firm; you will run the risk of slipping every time that you break ground.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    I know your style of fighting men, Crane; you want to make me break ground, and drive me step by step round the garden.
    BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUS
    On the 10th of the same month the Bengal division was to break ground from Ferozepore.
    HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, VOL. I (OF 3)SIR JOHN WILLIAM KAYE
    The two other slaves complied with him; so they began to break ground with the tools they had brought for that purpose.
    THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, VOLUME III (OF 4)ANONYMOUS
    Lowndes, old man, go out and tell the coolies to break ground next to Jevins's grave.
    LIFE'S HANDICAPRUDYARD KIPLING
    The beginning of 1812 opened with the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, where we arrived and began to break ground on the 8th of February.
    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SERGEANT WILLIAM LAWRENCEWILLIAM LAWRENCE
    Here we break ground and leave the chaste simplicity of the golden age to riot a blaze of exuberant decoration.
    POTTERY, FOR ARTISTS CRAFTSMEN & TEACHERSGEORGE J. COX
    I went out West in the autumn of '63 to break ground for the first mile of railway track west of the Missouri river.
    MY LIFE IN MANY STATES AND IN FOREIGN LANDSGEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
    He had got a firmer hold on Hunter now and he meant to break ground for the next attack by picking up Winthrop's trail.
    A PRAIRIE COURTSHIPHAROLD BINDLOSS
    In 1786 Pitt availed himself of the opening of the session to induce his friend to break ground.
    BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 61, NO. 378, APRIL, 1847VARIOUS
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