kick in
informal— phrasal verb with kick uk/kɪk/us/kɪk/verb
C1 to start to have an effect or to happen:
It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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