set back
Cause a reversal
Set back means to delay or impede progress: The project was set back by supply shortages.
It can also mean to cost someone a sum of money: That new car set him back forty thousand.
As a noun (usually hyphenated as setback), it's a reversal or check to progress: The team suffered a major setback when their star player was injured.
Delay to later time
- hinderObstruct or delay
- impedeTo obstruct movement
- obstructBlock or hinder passage
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
slow · interrupt · derail · hamper · retard · hold up · put off · defer
Money paid out
- priceMonetary value assigned
- feePayment for service
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- outlayMoney paid for something
expenditure · charge · debt · deficit · budget · investment · financial burden · overhead
postpone
Delay to later time
stall · slow · interrupt · derail · hamper · retard · hold up · put off · defer · suspend
expense
Money paid out
outlay · expenditure · charge · debt · deficit · budget · investment · financial burden · overhead · tuition
recessed
Set back into something
- withdrawnEmotionally distant, disengaged
- removedTaken from position
- positionedSet in location
spaced · distanced · placed · situated · inset · away from · behind
- time changestime zone change, daylight saving, spring forward, reschedule, schedule shift
- stuckjammed, clogged, trapped, stuck in mud, snowed in
- stunstun, daze, shock, stupefy, stagger
set backadvance
Move or progress forward
move forward · move up · bring forward · set forward · propel