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Antonyms for set up

Grammar : Verb
Spell : set-uhp
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛtˌʌp

Definition of set up

Origin :
  • Old English settan (transitive) "cause to sit, put in some place, fix firmly; build, found; appoint, assign," from Proto-Germanic *(bi)satjan "to cause to sit, set" (cf. Old Norse setja, Swedish sätta, Old Saxon settian, Old Frisian setta, Dutch zetten, German setzen, Gothic satjan), causative form of PIE *sod-, variant of *sed- "to sit" (see sit (v.)). Also cf. set (n.2).
  • Intransitive sense from c.1200, "be seated." Used in many disparate senses by Middle English; sense of "make or cause to do, act, or be; start" and that of "mount a gemstone" attested by mid-13c. Confused with sit since early 14c. Of the sun, moon, etc., "to go down," recorded from c.1300, perhaps from similar use of the cognates in Scandinavian languages. To set (something) on "incite to attack" (c.1300) originally was in reference to hounds and game.
  • verb start
Example sentences :
  • "To set up as reformers would be to have the whole hive about our ears," she said.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Could they not set up five archers for the honor of Aquitaine and of Gascony?
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • But we cannot set up a pendulum to swing at the pole of the earth.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 » by Various
  • Jack Mallet and I, also, set up a shop, on a capital of three dollars.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • One end was brought into each main-chain, and set up by tackles.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Daniel Claus had set up a pack of hounds, equal in breed to Sir William's.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • The three stones were set up to keep chariots out of the forum.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • The headstone, set up by the parson, bore the words "Peccator Maximus."
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • As it is, I must set up for myself and become a maitresse femme.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • I set up now, when he goes by, so's I can hear him when he rides back.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Synonyms for set up

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