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synonyms for set back

  • bog down
  • decelerate
  • defeat
  • detain
  • embog
  • hang up
  • hold up
  • impede
  • mire
  • retard
  • reverse
  • slow
  • slow down
  • slow up
On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to set back, such as: bog down, decelerate, defeat, detain, embog, and hang-up.

antonyms for set back

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  • advance
  • forward
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How to use set back in a sentence

On the opposite side of the stream, set back about thirty paces from the brink, stood a granite boulder.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
The Darwood farmhouse set back from the road, among some cedar trees.
THE MYSTERY AT PUTNAM HALLARTHUR M. WINFIELD
In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCER
Set back on the middle of two lots, it was, with a cement drive sloping up from the street to the garage backed against the alley.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWER
She had finished her polishing and set back the silver, to eye it with a critical and delighted gaze.
COUNTRY NEIGHBORSALICE BROWN
A withdrawal became necessary, and at dawn the line was set back as far as the western outskirts of Wulverghem.
YPRES AND THE BATTLES OF YPRESUNKNOWN
One fellow told me we oughtn't to have given the contract to a man without capital to carry him over a set-back.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSS
That was the first set-back, and the next one was ten times worse.
WE TENLYDA FARRINGTON KRAUS
The Set-back at Naples excitable Neapolitan populace forthwith became unmanageable.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSON
But no farming nation can suffer great crop losses without being set back financially and starved to where it hurts.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVIS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SET BACK

  • decelerate
  • delay
  • detain
  • halt
  • hang up
  • impede
  • retard
  • set back
  • sink
  • slacken
  • slow down
  • slow up
  • stall
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.