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1. compare: to consider something in relation to something else, or consider something as being offset by something else
 Set against her previous good work, this is only a minor lapse.
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2. make people fight one another: to make people or groups start to fight with or be hostile to people who used to be their friends
The civil war set brother against brother and father against son.
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