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What does set about mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word set about? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To initiate or begin some action.
  2. To attack.
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On the following day conditions were better and everyone set about striking camp with a will.
Eight fire engines raced to the scene and set about tackling the blaze which firefighters said covered almost 30 acres of the field.
They set about to swiftly close the case and make an example of the alleged perpetrators, who were quickly railroaded to prison.
I pulled the waffle mix out of the cupboard and set about mixing the batter while Noriko got out the waffle iron and plugged it in.
On an unseasonally nippy May Tuesday, two women, a man and a young girl wheeling a baby's buggy, set about cracking open the votes in Kinsealy.
De Jong set about tracking down the original owner of the picture by going through the white pages.

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