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setting aboutphrasepresent participle of set about to take the first step in (a process or course of action)He set about making dinner while his husband ran out for wine. beginning, commencing, embarking (on or upon), entering (into or upon), falling (to), getting off, kicking off, launching, leading off, opening, starting, striking (into) creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originatingadopting, embracing, taking on, taking upestablishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing, pioneering, setting up, spawninggetting around (to), getting down (to), getting round (to) getting going, getting to concluding, ending, finishing, terminating ceasing, desisting, discontinuing, halting, knocking off, laying off, quitting, stoppingclosing, completingabandoning, forsaking, leavingabolishing, demolishing, destroying, exterminating, extinguishing, phasing out |