All set back synonyms
set back
S s verb set back
- hold up β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- demote β If someone demotes you, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
- interning β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- bogged β wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter.
- bogging β filthy; covered in dirt and grime
- devalorize β Devalue.
- bog down β If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- mark down β a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- backwaters β Plural form of backwater.
- ease off β freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- hold off β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- cost β The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it.
- mire β a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- downing β a downward movement; descent.
- benching β a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- declass β to lower in social status or position; degrade
- choke off β To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
- downed β from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- in-tern β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- disrate β to reduce to a lower rating or rank.
- come to β When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- backwater β A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- heave ho β an act or effort of heaving.
- buttonhole β A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- embog β (transitive) To bog down.
- downs β from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- ease up β freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
- back water β to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- iced β of or made of ice: ice shavings; an ice sculpture.
- downgrade β a downward slope, especially of a road.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- beat off β to drive back; repel
- heave-ho β an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.
- interned β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- nixing β nothing.
- buttonholing β the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- fight off β defend yourself from
adj set back
- depressed β If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.