kick off 1 of 2
verb
1
as in to begin
to take the first step in (a process or course of action) I'll kick off the discussion on ethics with this question Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- begin
- lead off
- set about
- get off
- commence
- start
- get going
- open
- get to
- fall (to)
- found
- launch
- strike (into)
- embark (on or upon)
- create
- enter (into or upon)
- father
- generate
- initiate
- institute
- take up
- originate
- adopt
- pioneer
- organize
- innovate
- invent
- get around (to)
- establish
- take on
- spawn
- inaugurate
- get down (to)
- set up
- get round (to)
- embrace
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- end
- finish
- lay off
- stop
- conclude
- terminate
- cease
- knock off
- halt
- discontinue
- complete
- quit
- leave
- close
- desist
- abandon
- destroy
- forsake
- abolish
- extinguish
- demolish
- phase out
- exterminate
2
as in to die
slang to stop living surprisingly, the recluse was worth a cool million when he kicked off Synonyms & Similar Words
- die
- pass away
- fall
- pop off
- check out
- step out
- peg out
- perish
- kick in
- buy it
- snuff it
- part
- end
- pass (on)
- depart
- exit
- buy the farm
- demise
- kick the bucket
- bite the dust
- go
- disappear
- decease
- expire
- succumb
- drop
- give up the ghost
- fade
- conk (out)
- flatline
- croak
- dry up
- fail
- predecease
- consume
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- live
- breathe
- be
- revive
- come to
- linger
- exist
- subsist
- flourish
- prosper
- thrive
kickoff
2 of 2noun
as in beginning
the point at which something begins a political cycle in which an election marks not only the end of one campaign but also the kickoff for the next one Synonyms & Similar Words
- beginning
- start
- commencement
- launch
- onset
- inception
- alpha
- baseline
- genesis
- dawn
- inauguration
- outset
- morning
- threshold
- birth
- initiation
- day one
- nascence
- infancy
- origination
- git-go
- arrival
- nascency
- founding
- spring
- incipience
- get-go
- opening
- incipiency
- debut
- first base
- ground zero
- origin
- dawning
- drawing board
- creation
- emergence
- well
- institution
- advent
- cradle
- fountain
- childhood
- appearance
- square one
- début
- germ
- source
- root
- seedbed
- fountainhead
- wellspring
- youth
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- end
- conclusion
- close
- ending
- period
- completion
- closing
- termination
- finish
- closure
- cessation
- stop
- finale
- omega
- windup