Synonyms for set on
set on

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1. set onverb

   Synonyms:
   set upon

2. set onverb

   To encourage someone, or an animal, to attack someone.

   I will set the dogs on you, if you don't leave right now!

   Synonyms:
   set upon

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1. assail, assault, set on, attackverb

   attack someone physically or emotionally

   "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"

   Synonyms:
   violate, assail, lash out, snipe, ravish, round, dishonour, outrage, assault, rape, dishonor, attack, aggress

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1. set on

   Synonyms:
   incite, instigate, prompt, urge, impel, influence, actuate

2. set on

   Synonyms:
   attack, assault, set upon

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1. Ron Johnson:

   I also condemned the 570 riots that occurred during the summer. So many people ignored those. The lieutenant governor has made excuses for those rioters saying ‘Well what do you expect? They’re frustrated,' if you want to talk about rioting, we should take a look at what happened in Kenosha. The day after the first night of rioting, when a used car lot was set on fire, instead of trying to calm things down, the lieutenant governor gave a press conference.

2. Shannon Phenix:

   That might have been true, but Lee Brown would have only been held at the jail on Lee Brown traffic warrants and Lee Brown would have been out of custody in two days, and Lee Brown would have bail set on those warrants.

3. Cory Booker:

   This is one of those instances where the house was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws. And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire.

4. Mitch Hedberg:

   I can't tell you what hotel I'm stayin' in, but I can say that there are two trees involved. They said, "Let's call this hotel "Something...Tree", so they had a meeting; it...it was quite short. "How 'bout Tree?" "No, Double Tree." "Hell yeah! Meeting adjourned!" I had my heart set on "Quadruple Tree"... damnit, we were almost there!

5. Tim Peake:

   After a gap of 24 years since Helen Sharman flew to the Mir space station, the Union (Jack) flag is going to be flown and worn in space once again, what that means is that there's nothing to stop the schoolkids in Great Britain today from being amongst the first men and women to set on foot on Mars in the future.