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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-begin-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="begin" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>bɪˈɡɪn</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="began"/>
      <Form writtenForm="beginning"/>
      <Form writtenForm="begun"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-begin-v-02615238-v" synset="oewn-02615238-v" dc:identifier="begin%2:42:04::"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-02615238-v" ili="i34721" partOfSpeech="v" members="oewn-begin-v" lexfile="verb.stative">
      <Definition language="en">have a beginning, of a temporal event</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-02614382-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-02614382-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-00349400-v"/>
      <Example language="en">WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland</Example>
      <Example language="en">The company&apos;s Asia tour begins next month</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>