Synonym: defer, hold over, knock back, postpone, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, remit, shelve, table. Similar words: cut back, basketball, back, back on, back of, back up, pay back, hold back. Meaning: v. 1. hold back to a later time 2. slow down the progress of; hinder 3. cost a certain amount set-back. n. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
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31, The crisis set back the entire economy of the capitalist world.
32, A court-ordered temporary halt earlier this week to a government plan to put graphic warning labels on cigarette packs could also set back efforts to get people to smoke, McAfee said.
33, The bad weather will set back out building plans by three weeks.
34, As a joke, John set back the clock a whole hour.
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35, The results showed that this sterile might be male fertility gene's expression in thermo-photosensitivity modulatory was set back leading to pollen abortivity.
36, During the Great Leap Forward, sport was set back on account of the tendency to report untruthfully, to over-ambitions, exaggeration and formalism.
37, The house is set back some distance from the street.
38, The clocks are set back and the forces of destruction are rampant down below.
39, With approval, airflow may set back to 6 air changes per hour when space is unoccupied.
40, The crisis set back the entire economy of that country.
41, The default color of white would not appear correctly when initialized and wouldn't show up until a state change had been triggered and then was set back to default.
42, If all you say is true, won't set back the flying saucer program several years?
43, A similar obstruction would set back the LHC schedule by weeks.
44, The move has the potential to set back Jewish-Catholic relations, which was strained by Pope Pius XII.
45, Mussolini and his group set back the progress of Italy many years.
46, But as transportation dollars dried up during the 80's and 90's, biking was set back.
47, The cold weather set back the planting by two weeks.
48, Any attempt to set back the wheel of history is doomed to failure.
49, That was inexcusably stupid, and will set back your plans quite a bit.
More similar words: cut back, basketball, back, back on, back of, back up, pay back, hold back, back away, call back, backyard, go back to, draw back, give back, go back on, look back, keep back, feedback, fall back on, bring back, double back, back and forth, background, date back to, quarterback, get by, set, asset, set out, set up.