Set Back

Definition: Set Back

Set Back

Noun

1. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.

Verb

1. Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam".

2. Slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back".

3. Cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Set Back

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Crosswords: Set Back

Extreme set back. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

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Books

• It's Time for Your Comeback: Don't Take a Step Back With a Set Back (reference)

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Business

Like most industries, the Korean environmental market demand experienced a set back in 1998--a 40% reduction in environmentally related imports. (references)

Business suffered a set back with the Asian financial crisis, which struck Thailand in mid-1997, but as recovery emerges and the economy comes back on line, the potential is returning. (references)

Economic History

Togo

The democratic process was set back in October 1992, when elements of the army held the interim legislature hostage for 24 hours. (references)

Kenya

The agricultural sector, which is the country's mainstay, has been set back by problems associated with poor infrastructure, poor world commodity prices, poor management of the sector and bad weather. (references)

Pakistan

The decision by India to conduct nuclear tests in May 1998 and Pakistan's matching response set back U.S. relations in the region, which had seen renewed U.S. Government interest during the second Clinton Administration. (references)

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Expression using "set back": be set back. Additional references.

Albanian

pengoj (arrest, baffle, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, shut in, stumble, trammel, traverse, trouble), frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, stay put, stem, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلف (cost, freckle), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏تعقب (carry, chase, dog, follow, hound, keep track of, pursue, tail), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏أخر (delay, detain, intercept, postpone, protract, put back, retard, wait). (various references)

Bulgarian 

струвам (be, cost, stand in), спъвам (beset, clog, cramp, embarrass, entangle, fetter, hinder, hobble, impede, interfere, preclude, prevent, prohibit, retard, shackle, short circuit, snag, snub, tie, trammel, trig), връщам назад (put back, throw back), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, sidetrack, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady), построявам назад. (various references)

Czech

zvrátit (disgorge, overrule, overturn, reverse, upset), překazit (baffle, confound, queer, thwart, upset), odstrèit (push aside, push away, push forward, put aside, set aside), nezdar (failure, knock, miscarriage, reversal, setback). (various references)

Danish

trykke en togstamme tilbage (to push back a set of wagons, to set back a set of wagons). (various references)

Dutch

wagengroep terugzetten (to push back a set of wagons, to set back a set of wagons), een treindeel terugzetten (to push back a set of wagons, to set back a set of wagons). (various references)

Finnish

taannuttaa (impede, keep back). (various references)

French

retarder, remettre, entraver, coûter. (various references)

German

schlappe (defeat, hammering, nervelessly, rout, walloping), zurückwerfen (echo, put back, reflect, repel, repulse, return, reverberate, throw back, throwback, to reflect, to set back, toss back), zurücksetzen (back, back off, backspace, mark down, move back, neglect, put back, reduce, replace, replacement, return, reverse, to relocate, to remove), verzögern (adjourn, defer, delay, hinder, hold back, hold in abeyance, lag, postpone, retard, slow down, to defer, to delay, to retard), kosten (charge, charges, cost, costs, expenditure, expense, expenses, fees, outlay, sample, savor, savour, take, taste, to cost, to cost (cost), behindern (bar, bother, clog, cramp, disturb, encumber, hamper, handicap, hedge about, hedge around, hedge in, hedge round, hinder, impede, inhibit, keep back, obstruct, prevent, thwart, to spoil, trouble). (various references)

Greek 

αναβάλλω (adjourn, call off, cancel, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, respite, stall, stay). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעקוב (follow, keep track of, tag, trace, track). (various references)

Hungarian

visszaesés (backsliding, drop, fallback, letdown, palindromia, recidivation, recidivism, recurrence, relapse, retrogression, throw back), hanyatlás (decadence, decadency, decay, declension, decline, depression, deterioration, downgrade, downtrend, droop, drop, ebb, fall-off, retrogression, set-back), hátratol, hátrahúz (to set back). (various references)

Indonesian

mengakhirkan (place last). (various references)

Italian

ritardare (be late, defer, delay, lag, lose, obstruct, pocket, put off, retard, stay, wait), mettere indietro, distare (be ... away, be distant), costare (be expensive, cost, expenditure, expenses, fee, savour, taste). (various references)

Manx

soie er ash. (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay ackbay

Portuguese

retroceder (fall back, flinch, recede, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress, revert, run back, shrink, subside), impedir (arrest, avert, balk, block, clash, clog, cramp, cumber, dam, debar, delay, detain, embarrass, estop, fetter, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hinder, hobble, impede, intercept, interfere, let, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put a stop, resist, restrain, shackle, stop, thwart, trammel, withhold). (various references)

Romanian

regret (regret, sorry), recidivã (recurrence), rãcilã, piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, wash out), decepţie (balk, disappointment, sell). (various references)

Russian 

воспрепятствовать, остановить (pull up), задержка (backoff, backset, back-set, check, delay, detention, foot-dragging, hitch, holdback, holdup, impediment, lag, lagging, lateness, retardation, retardment, setback, suppression, throwback, time-delay, time-lag). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smetnja (cumber, disturbance, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, jam up, nuisance, perturbation, setback), prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Spanish

retrasar (back up, check, delay, hold up, pull back, put back, retard, sojourn, take back, turn back), hacer retroceder (push back, turn back), detener (arrest, capture, detain, get, halt, hinder, hold up, keep, pick up, pull, pull in, secure, seize, stay, stop, take), costar (charge, cost, knock back), atrasar (hold up, put back, slow down). (various references)

Swedish

ställa tillbaka (return), kosta (cost), fördröja (delay, detain, retard, slow down, stall). (various references)

Turkish

patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, snap, spring), mal olmak (be, cost, knock back), içeri almak (admit, let in, pass in, pass into, take in, take into), geriye almak (put back), geride bırakmak (distance, have the drop on, leave astern, leave behind, outdistance, outpace, outstrip, shoot ahead of, walk away), geri bırakmak, geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retract, retrieve, revoke, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw), geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retract, retreat, shrink back, stand back, step back, withdraw), geciktirmek (adjourn, delay, hold up, impede, keep back, postpone, procrastinate, put back, retard, sidetrack, stall, stall off, stave off). (various references)

Ukrainian

класти на місце, повернути назад, перешкоджати (baffle, balk, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, cumber, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, tie up, trammel). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backset, setback.

-1 letter: basket, casket.

-2 letters: abets, backs, bakes, baste, bates, beaks, beast, beats, becks, betas, cakes, caste, cates, cesta, skate, stack, stake, steak, tabes, taces, tacks, takes, teaks.

-3 letters: abet, aces, acts, ates, back, bake, base, bask, bast, bate, bats, beak, beat, beck, best, beta, bets, cabs, cake, case, cask, cast, cate, cats, east, eats.

+1 letter: backrest, backseat, backsets, blackest, brackets, setbacks, tiebacks, wetbacks.

+2 letters: backbeats, backbites, backdates, backrests, backseats, backstage, backswept, stackable.

+3 letters: backbiters, backlisted, backstreet, backstroke, backwaters, breadstick, buckwheats, waterbucks.

+4 letters: backscatter, backstabbed, backstabber, backstopped, backstreets, backstretch, backstrokes, blackhearts, blacklisted, blacklister, blackwaters, bluejackets, breadsticks, picketboats, stickleback, turtlebacks.

+5 letters: backscatters, backstabbers, backstitched, backstitches, bankruptcies, blacklisters, cabinetworks, leatherbacks, quarterbacks, sticklebacks, switchbacked.