sets back

Main Entry:
set back
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: delay, hinder
Synonyms: bog down, decelerate, defeat, detain, embog, hang up, hold up, impede, mire, retard, reverse, slow, slow down, slow up
Antonyms: advance, forward
Main Entry: cost
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: command a price of
Synonyms: amount to be asked, be demanded, be given, be marked at, be needed, be paid, be priced at, be received, be valued at, be worth, bring in, come to, mount up, move back, nick, rap, require, sell at, sell for, set back, take, to the tune of, yield
Main Entry: demote
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: downgrade, lower in rank
Synonyms: bench, break, bump, bust, declass, degrade, demean, demerit, dismiss, disrate, hold back, kick downstairs, lower, reduce, relegate, set back
Antonyms: improve, promote, rate, upgrade
Main Entry: detain
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold, keep back; arrest
Synonyms: apprehend, bog down, bust, buttonhole, check, confine, constrain, decelerate, delay, hang up, hinder, hold up, ice*, impede, inhibit, intern, jail, mire, nab, pick up, pinch*, pull in, put away, reserve, restrain, retard, run in, send up, set back, slow down, slow up, withhold
Antonyms: free, let go, liberate, release
Main Entry: downgrade
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lower in opinion or rank
Synonyms: abase, bench, break*, bump*, bust, declass, decrease, decry, degrade, demerit, demote, denigrate, depreciate, detract from, devalorize, devalue, disparage, disrate, humble, mark down, minimize, reduce, run down, set back, take down a peg, undervalue, write off
Antonyms: improve, promote, raise, upgrade
Main Entry: hold up
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: postpone
Synonyms: delay, detain, hinder, hold off, impede, interfere, interrupt, pause, prorogue, retard, set back, slow down, stay, stop, suspend, waive
Antonyms: allow, continue, forward, permit, promote
Main Entry: mire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: delay, catch up in
Synonyms: bog down, cling, decelerate, detain, dirty, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, flounder, hang up, implicate, involve, retard, set back, sink, slow down, slow up, snare, soil, stick, tangle, trap
Main Entry: repulse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: push away
Synonyms: beat off, brush off, check, defeat, drive back, fend off, fight off, heave-ho, hold off, keep off, kick in the teeth, nix, overthrow, push back, put down, rebuff, rebut, reject, repel, resist, set back, stave off, throw back, ward off
Antonyms: attract, enchant
Main Entry: retard
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hinder, obstruct
Synonyms: arrest, back off, baffle, balk, bog, bog down, brake, bring to screeching halt, check, choke, choke off, clog, close off, crimp, dawdle, decelerate, decrease, defer, delay, detain, down, encumber, falter, fetter, flag, hamper, handicap, hang up, hesitate, hold back, hold up, impede, lessen, let up, loaf, loiter, mire, poke, postpone, reduce, retardate, set back, shut down, shut off, slacken, slow down, slow up, stall, take down
Antonyms: advance, help, push
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