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Set off

verb

Put in motion or move to act. Synonyms: activate, actuate, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip. "Actuate the circuits"

Leave. Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set out, start, start out, take off.

Direct attention to, as if by means of contrast. Synonym: bring out. "I set off these words by brackets"

Cause to burst with a violent release of energy. Synonyms: blow up, detonate, explode.

Make up for. Synonyms: cancel, offset.

Set in motion or cause to begin.

Provoke or stir up. Synonyms: incite, instigate, stir up. "Set off great unrest among the people"

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"Set off" Quotes from Famous Books

... set off to find the car that had knocked down the stranger on the icy street were as mysterious the next day as they could be. At least, so their girl ...

— The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross - Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause • Gertrude W. Morrison

... and packed a box of lunch, putting in a whole apple pie. Daddy had brought his fishing rod with him, and he promised to make Sunny one as soon as they found a place to fish. Mother thought she would not go, for she was already tired from a long walk the day before. So Sunny Boy and Daddy set off alone for the brook in the woods where the speckled ...

— Sunny Boy in the Country • Ramy Allison White

... possibly accept it," groaned old Mr. King; "don't you see, child, after treating him so? Why, how could I? The idea is too monstrous!" He set off now at such a brisk pace down the room that Phronsie had hard work to keep up with him. But he clung ...

— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney

... to resume his route. The hack had been kept waiting; the gentleman-usher relit his pipe, said three words to the driver, and seated himself at the left of the Colonel. The carriage set off at a trot, reached the Boulevards, and took the direction of the Bastille. It had gotten opposite the Porte Saint-Martin, and Fougas, with his head at the window, was continuing the composition of his impromptu speech, when ...

— The Man With The Broken Ear • Edmond About

... the remainder of the party, who were now sufficiently revived to hear; told them that he would set off at once to bring help from his own party; 'and,' he added, 'if you be again reduced to such extremities, look round you, and you will see the earth strewn with assistance. Here, for instance, growing on the under side of fissures in this cliff, you will ...

— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

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