SET IN MOTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Get going; give impetus to

Example:

Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process

Synonyms:

launch; set in motion

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "set in motion" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set in motion"):

launch (launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP