Synonyms of setting up

setting up

verb

present participle of set up

1

as in putting

to arrange something in a certain spot or position

set up tables in the living room for the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

• putting
• situating
• placing
• positioning
• locating
• depositing
• laying
• sticking
• disposing
• setting
• fixing
• parking
• deposing
• planting
• emplacing
• lining up
• establishing
• plunking down
• shifting
• moving
• locking
• laying out
• rearranging
• clapping
• orienting
• reordering
• setting down
• slapping
• carrying
• assembling
• collecting
• flopping
• berthing
• affixing
• plopping
• planking
• plumping
• anchoring
• wedging
• ranking
• lodging
• settling
• queuing
• plunking
• niching
• ensconcing
• arraying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• removing
• taking
• relocating
• replacing
• displacing
• banishing
• superseding
• supplanting
• dislodging

2

as in founding

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• founding
• establishing
• pioneering
• initiating
• introducing
• creating
• launching
• beginning
• instituting
• thinking (up)
• planting
• inaugurating
• constituting
• cooking (up)
• starting
• making up
• constructing
• originating
• innovating
• organizing
• developing
• inventing
• manufacturing
• authoring
• producing
• putting up
• devising
• funding
• expanding
• financing
• conceiving
• enlarging
• fathering
• concocting
• fabricating
• subsidizing
• contriving
• endowing
• arranging
• systematizing
• relaunching
• systemizing
• reinstituting
• reinitiating
• refounding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• shutting (up)
• phasing out
• abolishing
• ending
• finishing
• winding up
• stopping
• terminating
• halting
• nullifying
• annulling
• annihilating
• rounding (off or out)
• wrapping up

3

as in erecting

to fix in an upright position

set up a post from which to hang the sign

Synonyms & Similar Words

• erecting
• raising
• putting up
• rearing
• lifting
• hoisting
• pitching
• propping (up)
• shoring (up)
• upending
• jacking (up)
• bracing
• supporting
• picking up
• elevating
• upraising
• perking (up)
• upping
• upholding
• buttressing
• hiking
• uplifting
• craning
• heightening
• boosting
• heaving
• hefting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tearing down
• leveling
• flattening
• demolishing
• knocking down
• razing

4

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

set up the prefabricated shed by following the instructions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• making up
• making
• putting together
• putting up
• creating
• erecting
• manufacturing
• establishing
• fabricating
• designing
• piecing
• producing
• rearing
• thinking (up)
• raising
• cooking (up)
• confecting
• throwing up
• rebuilding
• generating
• rigging (up)
• shaping
• organizing
• molding
• beginning
• originating
• forging
• concocting
• framing
• inventing
• fashioning
• hammering
• initiating
• founding
• reconstructing
• innovating
• constituting
• instituting
• inaugurating
• imagining
• carpentering
• coining
• devising
• prefabricating
• handcrafting
• retrofitting
• reedifying
• combining
• fathering
• conceiving
• reassembling
• redeveloping
• jerry-building
• contriving
• uniting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• tearing down
• taking down
• knocking down
• pulling down
• striking
• dismantling
• destroying
• blowing up
• disassembling
• devastating
• wrecking
• dismembering
• shattering
• ruining
• flattening
• smashing
• leveling
• demolishing
• pulverizing
• razing
• exploding
• demounting
• dividing
• ruinating
• detaching
• separating
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• disjoining
• disuniting

5

as in healing

to restore to a healthy condition

don't worry, the doctor will set you up in no time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• healing
• rehabilitating
• curing
• fixing
• attending (to)
• ministering (to)
• treating
• caring (for)
• repairing
• reviving
• relieving
• rehabbing
• mending
• alleviating
• physicking
• renewing
• revitalizing
• doctoring
• nursing
• medicating
• rejuvenating
• remedying
• fortifying
• resuscitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impairing
• disabling
• damaging
• injuring
• hurting
• crippling
• wounding
• harming
• mutilating
• laying up
• wasting
• weakening
• maiming
• ailing
• mangling
• lacerating
• debilitating
• afflicting
• laming
• sickening
• sapping
• enervating
• enfeebling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of setting up

Just this week, the House passed a funding bill, a bill curbing congressional stock trading with voter ID requirements attached, a defense bill, and a budget bill setting up Iran war funding — before jetting for the summer on Thursday. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 23 July 2026

Before setting up shop at Taliesin in Wisconsin and later Taliesin West in Arizona, Wright was at work establishing himself and figuring out his distinctive architectural eye in Oak Park. — River Davies, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2026

But setting up domestic production of the mobile, surface-to-air systems will take many months, said Serhii Beskrestnov, an advisor to Ukraine’s defense minister. — Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

His daughter, Jeanette Marini, 30, who is general manager of the chop house, lets her creativity flow in the catering by setting up artful buffet tables, as well as helping customers plan. — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026

Starbucks is setting up offices in Nashville and India that will house some tech workers, while others will remain at its Seattle headquarters. — Daniela Sirtori, Fortune, 9 July 2026

The figures involved in setting up the fight are Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Al-Sheikh, Ring Magazine and Saudi entertainment group Sela as well as broadcaster Netflix. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 17 June 2026

Police launched a large search operation after the shooting, setting up checkpoints and looking for witnesses. — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 16 June 2026

With the threat of the advancing British, the Continental Congress had moved the colonies’ central government from Philadelphia to Lancaster in September 1777 before setting up shop in York, just across the Susquehanna River. — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026