set about
Verb
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Verb
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.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
- 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.
- French: entreprendre, s'attaquer à
- Italian: iniziare, cominciare, intraprendere
- Russian: приступить к
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