come into being
verb1
Idiomatic To form; to start to exist.
- Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.
- Synonyms
- 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
- Antonyms
- cease, dematerialize, unexist, vanish
- Related terms
- bring into being, create, happen
- Hypernyms
- exist