PREPOSITION: "used as a function word to indicate a starting point of a physical movement" Crossword Clue

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PREPOSITION: "used as a function word to indicate a starting point of a physical movement" Crossword Answer

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FRO

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(preposition)
1. Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; — used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to;

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

INDICATE (verb)
1. be a signal for or a symptom of
2. indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
PREPOSITION (noun)
1. a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
2. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

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FRO
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