set off/out
— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
B2 to start a journey:
What time will we have to set off for Grandma's house tomorrow?
Jenny set off down the road on her new bike.
They've just set off on a round-the-world cruise.
More examples
- When we heard he was ill, we set off straight away to see him.
- They set off before dawn.
- They set off on their desert crossing two days ago.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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