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retard
To be delayed or undergo retardation
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  1. To be delayed or undergo retardation
  2. To hinder, delay, or slow the advance or progress of
  3. To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
reverse
To cause (an engine or mechanism) to function in reverse.
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  1. To cause (an engine or mechanism) to function in reverse.
  2. To put a motor, engine, etc. in reverse; reverse the action of a mechanism
  3. To turn inside out or upside down:
Find another word for set-back. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for set-back, like: retard, reverse, slow-down, defeat, hinder and set.

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  • Italy the convention seemed like a betrayal; to ~ poleon it was a set-back which he tried to retrieve by Italian gesting to Austria the peaceful cession of Venetia to ~t1t~u,ce Italian kingdom, in order to prevent any danger of of 1866.

  • The acceptance by the powers of the Murzsteg programme and the appointment of Austrian and Russian financial agents in Macedonia was an advantage for Austria and a set-back for Italy; hut the latter scored a success in the appointment of General de Giorgis as commander of the international Macedonian gendarmerie; she also obtained, with the support of Great Britain, France and Russia, the assignment of the partly Albanian district of Monastir to the Italian officers of that corps.

  • 7 §§ 6-8, Agrippa Castor, who lived under Hadrian (117-138), already wrote a polemic against him, so that his activity may perhaps be set back to a date earlier than 138.

  • 13 Bagoses gave a set-back to the revival of the Persian Empire.

  • Toke gives reason to believe that the date must be set back at least as early as 910.

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