set in
— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
When something unpleasant sets in, it begins and seems likely to continue in a serious way:
This rain looks as if it has set in for the rest of the day.
If you get bitten by a dog, you have to make sure the wound is cleaned well, or an infection could set in.
Despair seems to have set in among the team.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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