set back

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set someone/something back

to delay or stop the progress of someone or something. Then I needed a second operation, which really set me back. New violence has set back the peace process.

See also: back, set

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Of course, this only set back the day of reckoning and seduced us into spending more than we would have spent on a cash basis. John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context The vicarage was set back from the highroad to Tercanbury, and from the dining-room one saw a semicircular strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context He was a rather hard lot, take him how you might; but then you couldn't fairly ex- pect a man to be sweet that had been set back so. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context More results

References in classic literature

Of course, this only set back the day of reckoning and seduced us into spending more than we would have spent on a cash basis.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

The vicarage was set back from the highroad to Tercanbury, and from the dining-room one saw a semicircular strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

He was a rather hard lot, take him how you might; but then you couldn't fairly ex- pect a man to be sweet that had been set back so.

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

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