to kick-start
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4.2
- phrasal verb
- /ˈkɪkˌstɑrt/
:
impulsar
- Who knows, it may even kick-start the world economy.
- kick-start the economy
- kick-start your career
- kick-start the process
Essentially, leucine acts as a switch kick starting the muscle protein building process.
- Essentially, leucine acts as a switch kick starting the muscle protein building process.
- We've created a free guide that can kick start your journey to better gut health.
- And we know it's water that kick started life.
- And that sort of kick started everything else.
- Well, I mean, social media kind of kick started it for me.
- Still, it brings modern art to national attention in Brazil and kick starts a vibrant movement in Sao Paulo.
- So you'd be giving birth to these universes, kick start their growth, but then whoop their gum.
- And for some reason that that was the thing that was going to kick start my year.
- So I do hope you join us, you enjoy it and that it really, really kick starts your journey.
- To seek out food and consume it, or to stop eating and to essentially kick start the satiety mechanisms, as they're called.
- What are some ways that people can use the insights you've gained to do with light to help kick start their day?
- So the only way like I see of kick starting the process is to bring in exceptional people now.
- And then also it might give it a little nudge, a little helping hand along the way to maybe kick start labour.
- We've created a free guy that will kick start your journey to a better gut health.
- Like it's just as being someone who helped kick start like on side angle to boxing.
Examples
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To kick-start your fitness routine, begin with short daily workouts and gradually increase the intensity.
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It allows us to kick start our conquer step.
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So I do hope you join us, you enjoy it and that it really, really kick starts your journey.
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So the only way like I see of kick starting the process is to bring in exceptional people now.
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We've created a free guide that can kick start your journey to better gut health.
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Our city management has signaled they want to kick-start an innovation initiative in Austin sometime next year.
Blog text (4) -
Connecting to the Diaspora in the Valley has proved valuable to countries that are trying to kick-start financing mechanisms for start-ups.
Blog text (1) -
The transformation from niche invention to a blockbuster product was in part kick-started by Murphey, whose nascent business was nearly a failure.
Blog text (5) -
Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the PA, and Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy, have begun to kick-start local economic projects and remove some strategic checkpoints.
Academic text (2009) -
Following a long pause, they decided to kick-start the project with a brainstorming session.
Synonyms
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3.4
To cause something to start, often an idea or strong feeling
129
3.5
To start an event or activity, often officially
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3.0
To make a machine or system begin to work
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3.8
To make a stopped activity or project begin again with energy
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3.8
To start an event or activity, for example a speech
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4.7
To make something begin or become active quickly and with energy
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3.8
To start something quickly and give it extra energy to grow
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5.1
To start a project or activity
Antonyms
How Stimulating
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5.7
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4.2
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4.2
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3.7
∞
2.3
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kick-start also means to give a quick boost to something to make it begin or move again. Think of the same idea as starting a bike: kick ('a quick push') plus start ('begin'), so to kick-start a project or the economy is to give it a strong push to get it going.