Another word for afoot

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afoot

modif.

Walking
on foot, hiking, marching, on shank's mare*; see walking.
In preparation
in progress, stirring, going on, brewing, forthcoming, hatching, advancing, being prepared, in its first stages, being born, in embryo, astir, abroad, in action, getting ready, in the air, in the cards*, cooking*, up*.
Antonyms finished*, completed, ended.

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Love 'em, hate 'em -whatever, but their story is a case in point of the changes afoot in the music industry, and how the internet has leveled the playing field.
As one result of the strike of 1890 a movement was set afoot by a number of enthusiasts, more visionary than practical, that has resulted in a measure of more or less disaster.
And also among the Englishmen there were certain rascals that went afoot with great knives, and they went in among the men of arms, and slew and murdered many as they lay on the ground, both earls, barons, knights and squires, whereof the king of England was after displeased, for he had rather they had been taken prisoners."
If from habit and tradition he respects a stranger within his threshold, he yet considers it legitimate to warn a neighbour of the prey that is afoot, or even to overtake and plunder his guest after he has quitted his roof.
A movement was now set afoot in favour of a confederation of the three republics of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela on the basis of the original conditions existing after the expulsion of Spanish authority, and a resolution was passed by the chamber of deputies to that effect.

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