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View synonyms for set-in
set-in
[ set-in ]
adjective
- made separately and placed within another unit.
set in
verb
- to become established
the winter has set in
- (of wind) to blow or (of current) to move towards shore
adjective
- (of a part) made separately and then added to a larger whole
a set-in sleeve
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Word History and Origins
Origin of set-in1
First recorded in 1525–35; adj. use of verb phrase set in
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Example Sentences
Those wide seams in the whitewashed ceiling must mean the cracks due to a set-in door.
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In general the strongest flood does not set-in till Midsummer.
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"It's a set-in rain, and we're goin' to have a hard time," Hubert complained.
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Fine weather may, perhaps, have set-in in the interval in all parts of the mountains.
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