set back
[set-bak]
/ ˈsɛtˌbæk /
VERB
delay, hinder
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The Set-back at Naples excitable Neapolitan populace forthwith became unmanageable.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
