Antonyms for set aboutset about

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1. set about

   Antonyms:
   abstain, bring to an end, cease, come to an end, conclude, desist, discontinue, end, end, finish, give over, intermit, leave off, pause, quit, refrain, stop, terminate

   Synonyms:
   begin, commence, enter upon, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, set going, set in operation, set on foot, start

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1. • Act
   • Initiate

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1. set about, go about, approachverb

   begin to deal with

   "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, get down, come on, start out, commence, undertake, border on, go up, approach, go about, draw near, come near, get, begin, set out, near, start, draw close

2. undertake, set about, attemptverb

   enter upon an activity or enterprise

   Synonyms:
   attempt, take in charge, begin, get down, essay, seek, take on, commence, undertake, try, start, approach, tackle, get, assay, go about, contract, set out, guarantee, start out

3. get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commenceverb

   take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

   "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"

   Synonyms:
   bug out, take, pop, make, mystify, experience, develop, put down, draw, array, have, become, sustain, protrude, jump, initiate, receive, scram, take off, bulge, go, stimulate, sire, lead off, bulge out, drive, engender, startle, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, stick, suffer, beat, swallow, get down, father, go about, incur, contract, dispirit, bring forth, grow, get going, come out, dumbfound, stupefy, start, depress, light, cast down, originate, take up, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, range, buzz off, catch, write down, bugger off, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, deject, generate, capture, find, amaze, get off, baffle, produce, approach, pop out, attempt, start out, pose, vex, embark on, aim, let, set forth, perplex, arrest, gravel, begin, let down, fetch, depart, set down, commence, part, dismount, arrive, set out, convey, set off, acquire, come, lower, bring down, dismay, pay off, undertake, unhorse, demoralise, cause, lay out, start up, demoralize, take down, nonplus

How to use set about in a sentence?

1. Og Mandino:

   To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

2. Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

   There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

3. Stephen Galloway:

   It has a white actress, a black actor and a Hispanic actor - those are the three leads, right?, there's something a little mechanical when you set about it like that but at least they're heading in the right direction and other films must follow and will if they want to capture those audiences.

4. Sir Walter Scott:

   To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

5. Ausonius:

   Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.

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