Definition
To form; to start to exist.
In Context
- "Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being."
Also Said As
- appear
- form
- materialize
- take shape
- appear
- arise
- be born
- become
- rise
- come into being
- emerge
- engender
- form
- get up
- inform
- materialize
- originate
- pop up
- spring
- spring to life
- spring up
- surface
- take form
- take shape
- upspring
Opposite In Meaning
- cease
- dematerialize
- unexist
- vanish
See Also
- bring into being
- create
- happen