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sets foot

sets foot is the third-person singular simple present indicative of set foot.

Meaning of set foot

Verb

set foot (third-person singular simple present sets foot, present participle setting foot, simple past and past participle set foot)

  1. (idiomatic, rhetorical with 'in') To enter
    • Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet (fiction)
  2. (idiomatic, rhetorical with 'on') To step onto
    • After the boat capsized, I thought that I would never set foot on dry land again.

Questions about sets foot

What is sets foot the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sets foot is the third-person singular simple present indicative of set foot.

Words near sets foot in the dictionary

  1. sets fire of
  2. sets fire on
  3. sets fire to
  4. sets fire unto
  5. sets fire upon
  6. sets foot
  7. sets forth
  8. sets forward
  9. sets forwards
  10. sets free
  11. sets in

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