set about
English edit
Verb edit
set about (third-person singular simple present sets about, present participle setting about, simple past and past participle set about)
- To devote oneself to some task.
- He set about designing his homepage.
- 1963 June, “News and Comment: Road-rail co-operation”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
- No time has been lost in setting about the implementation of non-controversial Beeching proposals.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- But that’s a dubious triumph: A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it’s a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination.
- To attack.
- Two youths set about him.
Translations edit
to initiate or begin some action
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to attack
References edit
- “set about”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.