set in motion

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verb

get going;
give impetus to (Freq. 4)
- launch a career
- Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process
• Syn:
launch
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
launch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP