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SET IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become established
Example:
winter has set in
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Enter a particular state
Example:
After a few moments, the effects of the drug kicked in
Synonyms:
kick in; set in
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "set in" is one way to...):
begin; start (have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Blow toward the shore
Example:
That gale could set in on us with the next high tide
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "set in" is one way to...):
blow (be blowing or storming)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
I could have sworn that it was set in a malicious and abominable smile.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man’s face set in sullen defiance.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After successfully carrying out a number of communications and in-flight navigation experiments, the twin MarCOs were set in position to receive transmissions during InSight's entry, descent and landing.
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
With this early episode, set in mythological time, the manipulation of information and language has begun.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
The olive oil was given to the mice when they were only six months old and before any symptoms of Alzheimer’s set in.
(Study: Olive Oil Protects Brain From Alzheimer’s, VOA News)
Her face grew set in its lines, but her eyes shone with the devotion of a martyr as she answered:—Ah no! for my mind is made up!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The existence of such strong winds generating massive dust storms implies that the underlying sand can be set in motion, too, and that the giant dunes covering Titan's equatorial regions are still active and continually changing.
(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)
You may depend upon it, that they will move in the first set in Bath this winter, and as rank is rank, your being known to be related to them will have its use in fixing your family (our family let me say) in that degree of consideration which we must all wish for.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It was over, however, at last; and the evening set in with more composure to Fanny, and more cheerfulness of spirits than she could have hoped for after so stormy a morning; but she trusted, in the first place, that she had done right: that her judgment had not misled her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
