Synonyms and Antonyms of setting up
1
to arrange something in a certain spot or position
- set up tables in the living room for the party
deposing, depositing, disposing, emplacing, fixing, laying, placing, positioning, putting, setting, situating, sticking
moving, rearranging, reordering, shifting
orienting
establishing, locating, planting, settling
clapping, flopping, planking, plopping, plumping, plunking (or plonking), plunking down (or plonking down), slapping
ensconcing, niching
assembling, collecting
carrying
berthing, parking
affixing, anchoring, locking, lodging, wedging
arraying, laying out, lining up, queuing (or queueing), ranking
setting down
2
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
- set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city
beginning, constituting, establishing, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, planting, starting
authoring, fathering, originating
conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), creating, devising, fabricating, inventing, making up, manufacturing, producing, thinking (up)
constructing, putting up
developing, enlarging, expanding
endowing, financing, funding, subsidizing
arranging, organizing, systematizing, systemizing
refounding, reinitiating, reinstituting, relaunching
3
to fix in an upright position
- set up a post from which to hang the sign
bracing, buttressing, propping (up), shoring (up), supporting
boosting, craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, upholding, uplifting, upping
4
to form by putting together parts or materials
- set up the prefabricated shed by following the instructions
assembling, building, confecting, constructing, erecting, fabricating, making, making up, piecing, putting up, raising, rearing
carpentering, fashioning, forging, framing, hammering, handcrafting, manufacturing, molding, producing, shaping
prefabricating
beginning, coining, creating, generating, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, inventing, originating
constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizing
conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), designing, devising, imagining, thinking (up)
reassembling, rebuilding, reconstructing, redeveloping, reedifying [British], retrofitting
jerry-building, rigging (up), throwing up
combining, uniting
demolishing, destroying, devastating, flattening, leveling (or levelling), pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruinating, ruining, shattering, smashing, wrecking
blowing up, exploding
detaching, disengaging
disconnecting, disjoining, disuniting, dividing, separating
5
to restore to a healthy condition
- don't worry, the doctor will set you up in no time
attending (to), caring (for), doctoring, medicating, ministering (to), nursing, physicking, treating
fortifying, rejuvenating, renewing, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving
alleviating, relieving, remedying, repairing
crippling, damaging, disabling, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, lacerating, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, wounding
afflicting, ailing, debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, laying up, sapping, sickening, wasting, weakening
