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Another word for set about

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Verb
    1. See also:

      set

    © Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

    Another word for set about

    Verb
    1. See also:

      begin

    © WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

    Sentence Examples

    • I set about showing Molly some of our Econ Scrutiny simple chores and she was immediately interested.

    • We set about demolishing the table-like counter and had just completed it when our light began to fail.

    • She set about wandering the halls once more, pausing to look out of large windows onto expanses of grass.

    • Before Dean could remember what Shanghai offered for public transportation, Fred set about taking care of the needs and concerns of the returning guests.

    • When she was cleaned up, she set about doing what she did every morning: rifling through the sparse pantry then searching the mansion for more information.

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