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

Five seconds into the new year, there will be a new song with a video setting up the album. — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Euphoria creator Sam Levinson is setting up shop in a new home. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

One of the world’s largest denim manufacturers is setting up shop in Europe’s denim hub. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Plus, setting up is a breeze thanks to Google TV and Netflix being built into the device. — Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

The deal was supposed to address both countries’ priorities by reopening the Strait of Hormuz and setting up negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for widespread sanctions relief and an end to attacks on Iran and its partners. — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2026

Campus social experiments are officially crashing headfirst into federal civil rights law, setting up a showdown over the future of female athletics. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

But don’t sleep on the Bears basically gifting Washington 13 yards to McLaurin on the sidelines to stop the clock with two seconds remaining, setting up all the drama. — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Welcomed by Herky the Hornet, the cheer team and the campus community, the students and their families checked in before unloading their belongings and setting up their new rooms. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026