set about

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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)

1. 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.

2. To attack.

   Two youths set about him.

Translations

• French: entreprendre, s'attaquer à
• Italian: iniziare, cominciare, intraprendere
• Russian: приступить к

Translations

• French: attaquer
• Italian: aggredire

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