📖 Definitions of "Set off"
verb
- 1
To leave; to begin a journey or trip.
"He set off in search of better opportunities."
- 2
To begin; to cause; to initiate.
"I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument."
- 3
To cause to explode, let off.
"What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place."
- 4
To make angry.
"Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day."
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