"set off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-set off.ogg [Australia] Forms: sets off [present, singular, third-person], setting off [participle, present], set off [participle, past], set off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|set<,,set> off}} set off (third-person singular simple present sets off, present participle setting off, simple past and past participle set off)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (To leave; begin a journey or trip): gå af (Danish), forløbe (Danish), vertrekken (Dutch), lähteä matkaan (Finnish), losmachen [colloquial] (German), abgehen (German), sich absetzen (German), losziehen [person] (German), elindul (Hungarian), útnak indul (Hungarian), memulai (Indonesian), gå av (Norwegian), отправляться (otpravljatʹsja) (Russian), partir (Spanish), avgå (Swedish), taro allan (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-r-XvD4OY Disambiguation of 'To leave; begin a journey or trip': 73 21 2 1 1 1 2
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (To begin; to cause; to initiate): saada aikaan (Finnish), johtaa [with-illative] (Finnish), aloittaa (Finnish), panna alulle (Finnish), auslösen (German), entfesseln (english: exalted) (German), in Gang bringen / setzen (German), kivált (Hungarian), előidéz (Hungarian), causare (Italian), determinare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-feOltohZ Disambiguation of 'To begin; to cause; to initiate': 5 58 32 1 1 1 2
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Related terms: offset, put off, throw off Translations (To cause to explode): räjäyttää (Finnish), ampua (Finnish), laukaista (Finnish), zünden (German), abbrennen (German), felrobbant (Hungarian), innescare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-3dY7Me1m Disambiguation of 'To cause to explode': 1 34 59 1 1 2 2
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (To make angry): suututtaa (Finnish), mettre en colère (French), anzünden [informal] (German), aufbringen (gegen) (German), felbosszant (Hungarian), feldühít (Hungarian), membuat marah (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-NraFt~Uq Disambiguation of 'To make angry': 4 4 5 76 2 3 6
  5. (idiomatic, transitive) To enhance by emphasizing differences. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (To emphasize differences): korostaa (Finnish), absetzen (German), hervorheben (German)
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-Byqedodx Disambiguation of 'To emphasize differences': 9 9 11 3 37 4 27
  6. (idiomatic, transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-ZpMj44Az
  7. (printing, historical) 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. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Printing
    Sense id: en-set_off-en-verb-2~OK-nGO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (off), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 6 12 6 13 5 51 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 8 17 7 11 8 42 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 10 9 18 8 11 8 36 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 10 18 5 10 7 41 Disambiguation of English verb forms using redundant wikisyntax: 12 9 12 6 12 5 44 Topics: media, printing, publishing

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
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          "word": "gå af"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
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          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "elindul"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "memulai"
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        {
          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "gå av"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otpravljatʹsja",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "отправляться"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "partir"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 2 1 1 1 2",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "avgå"
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          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
          "word": "taro allan"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: kick off"
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          "text": "I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument."
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
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          "word": "saada aikaan"
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          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
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          "english": "exalted",
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          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
          "word": "entfesseln"
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
          "word": "in Gang bringen / setzen"
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
          "word": "kivált"
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
          "word": "causare"
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          "_dis1": "5 58 32 1 1 1 2",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
          "word": "determinare"
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          "text": "What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place."
        },
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Secure Lab, Rift Station, Noveria",
          "text": "Wrex: There are acid tanks rigged up on that thing. Set them off. Millions of my ancestors died to put these things down. Don't let them come back.",
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          "_dis1": "27 0 53 13 0 7 0",
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          "_dis1": "27 0 53 13 0 7 0",
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          "_dis1": "27 0 53 13 0 7 0",
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          "_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
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          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "räjäyttää"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "ampua"
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          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "laukaista"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "zünden"
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          "_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "abbrennen"
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          "_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "felrobbant"
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          "_dis1": "1 34 59 1 1 2 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To cause to explode",
          "word": "innescare"
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          "text": "Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day."
        }
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        "To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc."
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          "_dis1": "4 4 5 76 2 3 6",
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          "word": "suututtaa"
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          "_dis1": "4 4 5 76 2 3 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "To make angry",
          "word": "mettre en colère"
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          "_dis1": "4 4 5 76 2 3 6",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "To make angry",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "anzünden"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "To make angry",
          "word": "aufbringen (gegen)"
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          "sense": "To make angry",
          "word": "felbosszant"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "feldühít"
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          "_dis1": "4 4 5 76 2 3 6",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "To make angry",
          "word": "membuat marah"
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          "text": "Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole."
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          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
          "text": "And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.",
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        "To enhance by emphasizing differences."
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          "word": "korostaa"
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          "sense": "To emphasize differences",
          "word": "absetzen"
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          "_dis1": "9 9 11 3 37 4 27",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To emphasize differences",
          "word": "hervorheben"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469",
          "text": "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "journey",
          "journey"
        ],
        [
          "trip",
          "trip"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: kick off"
        },
        {
          "text": "I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin; to cause; to initiate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "initiate",
          "initiate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Secure Lab, Rift Station, Noveria",
          "text": "Wrex: There are acid tanks rigged up on that thing. Set them off. Millions of my ancestors died to put these things down. Don't let them come back.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to explode, let off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "explode",
          "explode"
        ],
        [
          "let off",
          "let off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode, let off."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
          "text": "And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enhance by emphasizing differences."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enhance",
          "enhance"
        ],
        [
          "emphasizing",
          "emphasize"
        ],
        [
          "difference",
          "difference"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To enhance by emphasizing differences."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "offset",
          "offset"
        ],
        [
          "compensate",
          "compensate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Printing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing, historical) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/En-au-set_off.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "gå af"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "forløbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "vertrekken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "lähteä matkaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "losmachen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "abgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "sich absetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "tags": [
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "losziehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "elindul"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "útnak indul"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "memulai"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "gå av"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otpravljatʹsja",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "отправляться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "partir"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "avgå"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "To leave; begin a journey or trip",
      "word": "taro allan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "saada aikaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "tags": [
        "with-illative"
      ],
      "word": "johtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "aloittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "panna alulle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "auslösen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "exalted",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "entfesseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "in Gang bringen / setzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "kivált"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "előidéz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "causare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To begin; to cause; to initiate",
      "word": "determinare"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "räjäyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "ampua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "laukaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "zünden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "abbrennen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "felrobbant"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To cause to explode",
      "word": "innescare"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "suututtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "mettre en colère"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "anzünden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "aufbringen (gegen)"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "felbosszant"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "feldühít"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "To make angry",
      "word": "membuat marah"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To emphasize differences",
      "word": "korostaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To emphasize differences",
      "word": "absetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To emphasize differences",
      "word": "hervorheben"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set off"
}

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