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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

... the padded door of which was shut and locked immediately upon him and his guide. As for the giant, he cut the fastenings by which the horses were bound, harnessed them himself, and mounted on the box of the carriage, which was unoccupied. The carriage set off immediately at a quick trot, turned into the road to Paris, and in the forest of Senart found a relay of horses fastened to the trees in the same manner the first horses had been, and without a postilion. The man on the ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Don Benito, and they slowly walked together. They had gone but a few paces, when the steward—a tall, rajah-looking mulatto, orientally set off with a pagoda turban formed by three or four Madras handkerchiefs wound about his head, tier on tier—approaching with a saalam, ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... dawn broke, the deep note of a bell-bird awakened Kate from a somewhat restless and troubled slumber; but quickly dressing, she took up a bucket and set off to the milking-yard. ...

— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke

... herself when the two ladies had set off on their short walk, "yon's not so straightforward and simple as I once thought her. Only give her a chance, and as sure as death she'll get hold of ...

— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow

... and misses," Mac went on, "—or blasts you and misses, to keep it in your viewpoint. When you jump back, you set off a bunch of controls. That was the control room, too, not just the communications room. Well, those controls you lean back against take the ship out of automatic pilot and send it into some wild acrobatics and that's why Hafitz misses. Also it knocks him out of the wheelchair so ...

— Double Take • Richard Wilson

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