setting out meaning

Definition of setting out in English Dictionary

• VerbBFset outSGsets outPT, PPset out
  1. present participle of set out.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Returning "emptyhanded" doesn't always mean that you didn't get what you set out for.
     • Chelsea had set out like a team that was reluctant to blur the lines between adventure and leaving themselves open to the counterattack and, by the end, it was a full-on backs-to-the-walls operation.
     • When I started my sportswriting career 30 years ago, I set out to become a big fish in a small pond.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Other Vocabulary

1. en getting out
2. en letting out
3. en batting out
4. en cutting out
5. en fitting out