sets in
Begins to prevail
Sets in describes something unpleasant beginning and becoming established.
Weather, moods, and conditions set in: Winter has set in, Panic set in when the lights went out, Rigor mortis sets in within hours of death.
The phrase implies the thing taking hold will persist for a while.
Decay sets in.
Despair sets in.
Rarely does anything welcome set in.
- beginsStarts to happen
- frostThin ice coating
- cold snapBrief period of bitter chill
- duskDimming after sundown
- long shadowsElongated darkness from objects
fog · dead of night · encroaches · rigor mortis · fatigue · cabin fever · twilight · stillness · creeping dread · anxiety · commence · melancholy · quiet desperation · sadness · rot · malaise · sense of doom · descend
sets inlifts
Raises or carries upward
clears · fades · passes · subsides · dissipates
sets inhits
Blows or successes
erupts · explodes · flashes · springs up
set, in, upset, setting, settlement, sets, settling, settler, unsettled