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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

... fact remains that the Soviet Union is increasing its armed might. It is still producing more war planes than the free nations. It has set off two more atomic explosions. The world still walks in the ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman • Harry S. Truman

... They accordingly set off. Tom observed what Billy had failed to do, that the shape of the beach was greatly altered, the wind having driven the sand far higher up than usual, so that in some parts it had risen to the height of the bank on which grass and shrubs grew. Indeed, a portion ...

— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston

... throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers broad at the edge and two spans round; each party has a pole of about eight feet long, smooth, and tapering at each end, the points flat. They set off abreast of each other at six yards from the end of the playground; then one of them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can, a considerable distance toward the middle of the other end of the square. When they have run a few yards, each darts his pole anointed with bears' ...

— Indian Games • Andrew McFarland Davis

... there was as a set off against all the rest—namely, the extraordinary wealth of flowers which grew thickly amongst the thousand varieties of rare ferns all over the land. What would be held as the most delicate hothouse plants in England here formed a brilliant carpet in their wild luxuriance. ...

— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth

... Priviledges that other Precincts in s'd. Province have or Do Enjoy: as p'r. a Coppy from Groton Town Book herewith Exhibited may Appear: For the Reasons mentioned we the Subscribers as afores'd. Humbley Prayes your Excellency and Honours to Set off y'e s'd Lands bounded as afores'd. to be a Distinct and Sepperate Precinct and Invest y'e Inhabitants thereon (Containing about y'e N'o. of Forty Famelies) and Such others as Shall hereafter Settle on s'd. ...

— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

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