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sets asidephrasepresent tense third-person singular of set aside to keep or intend for a special purposeHe set aside $100 a month for a down payment on a car. allocates, consecrates, dedicates, devotes, earmarks, gives up (to), reserves, saves, sets by blesses, hallows, sanctifiescommits, confides, consigns, entrusts(also intrusts)applies, bestows, employs, uses sets apart ignores, neglectsmisapplies, misuses to put an end to by formal actionThe company set aside the old strict dress code and allowed employees to dress a little more casually. abates, abolishes, abrogates, annuls, avoids, cancels, disannuls, dissolves, invalidates, negates, nullifies, nulls, quashes, repeals, rescinds, rolls back, strikes down, vacates, voids countermands, overrides, overrules, overturns, vetoesaborts, calls, calls off, drops, recalls, retracts, reverses, revokes, suspends, withdrawsbans, enjoins, forbids, outlaws, prohibitsdisallows, dismisses, rejectsannihilates, breaks down, eliminates, eradicates, erases, liquidates, removes, throws out, writes off does away with enacts, lays down, legislatesestablishes, founds, institutesformalizes, legalizes, legitimates, legitimizes, validatespasses, ratifiesallows, approves, authorizes, clears, endorses(also indorses), permits, sanctions, warrantscommands, decrees, mandates, orders, prescribes to get rid of as useless or unwantedThe professional organizer helped us set aside anything we didn't need or want anymore. cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off)also sluffs (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out disposes of adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret placeShe set aside her wedding dress in case her own daughter might want to wear it some day. caches, hoards, lays away, lays by, lays in, lays up, puts by, salts away, squirrels (away), stashes, stockpiles, stores, stows, treasures accumulates, acquires, amasses, assembles, collects, concentrates, garners, gathers, picks up, rounds up, scrapes (together)heaps, piles, stacksconserves, husbands, preservesbanks, coffers, deposits, holds, keeps, reserves, retains, saves, sets by, stocks, withholdsburies, conceals, ensconces, secretes casts, discards, ditches, dumps, flings (off or away), jettisons, throws away, throws out, unloadsconsumes, squanders, uses up, wasteshands out, hands over, relinquishes, surrendersblows, dissipates, fritters (away), lavishes, misspends, runs through, spendsdepletes, exhausts, expends, impoverishesdispels, disperses, dissipates, scatters |