set in
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]set in (third-person singular simple present sets in, present participle setting in, simple past and past participle set in)
- To take root, become established.
- That was the point at which the rot set in.
- 1941 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 484:
- [...] but rain set in, driven by a furious westerly gale, [...].
- 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 137:
- By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.
- 1964 September, “Motive Power Miscellany: BR Workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
- Work on anti-frost precautions on diesel locomotives is to be speeded up to ensure that most if not all locomotives have been dealt with before the winter sets in.
Translations
[edit]to take root
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[edit]References
[edit]- “set in”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.