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puhekieltä To leave; to begin a journey or trip.
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He set off in search of better opportunities.
puhekieltä To begin; to cause; to initiate.
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I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument.
puhekieltä To cause to explode, let off.
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What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.
puhekieltä To make angry.
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Dont set him off or he won't shut up all day.''
puhekieltä To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect.
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My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.
1881, w:Henry James|Henry James, Jr., w:The Portrait of a Lady|The Portrait of a Lady, Chapter XXXIX, in w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XLVIII, Number CCLXXXVI (August, 1881), Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, http://books.google.com/books?id=YGYCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA215&dq=set-it-off page 215:
- When a woman had made such a mistake, there was only one way to repair it,—to accept it. One folly was enough, especially it was to last for ever; a second one would not much set it off.
puhekieltä To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
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