Verb

To ready something for use.

We set up the sprinkler.

Logically order.

Set up my CD collection.

To cause to happen

Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

To trap or ensnare.

I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

Arrange for an outcome ; to tamper or rig.

The election was set up !

To gel or harden.

Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:

M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set' her ' up for the day.

To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

(sports) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

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(dated) To begin business or a scheme of life.

to set up''' in trade; to '''set up for oneself

To profess openly; to make pretensions.

* Jonathan Swift

Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.

Verb

(elevat)

To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.

To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).

To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.

To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

to elevate the voice

(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

* Sir Walter Scott

The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.

(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

(Jeremy Taylor)