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set
verb [T always + adv/prep] (PUT) /set/ (present participle setting, past tense and past participle set)Definition
› to put something in a particular place or position: Set the box on its end. Our house is set back from the road. › If you set something down, you put it on a surface: [M] She set down her teacup and leaned forward. › If you set a story in a particular place or time, the events happen then or there: Banks’s novel is set in the years before the Civil War.
(Definition of set verb (PUT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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