set-in
made separately and placed within another unit.
Origin of set-in
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How to use set-in in a sentence
What would you—what would I—say, if we wuz setin' in jedgment then?
A Little Book of Profitable Tales | Eugene Field
British Dictionary definitions for set in
to become established: the winter has set in
(of wind) to blow or (of current) to move towards shore
(of a part) made separately and then added to a larger whole: a set-in sleeve
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Other Idioms and Phrases with set-in
Insert, put in, as in I still have to set in the sleeves and then the sweater will be done. [Late 1300s]
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