set back
Verb
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Verb
set back
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- I expect it will set us back by a day or so, but I think a side trip will be worthwhile.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- Set it back from the road by twenty or thirty feet.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
- The statue was set back in a niche.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money, as.
- How much do you suppose that fancy dress set her back?
- French: retarder
- Russian: задерживать
- Russian: отставлять
- French: coûter
- Russian: стоить
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