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What is another word for
setting back
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Present participle for to delay or hinder an action or process
Present participle for to cost a given amount of money
Present participle for to lower in rank
Present participle for to diminish the confidence or courage of
Present participle for to fend off or defend against something hostile
Present participle for to become embroiled or implicated in
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Present participle for to delay or hinder an action or process
delaying
hindering
impeding
retarding
arresting
slowing
miring
decelerating
detaining
embogging
holding up
slowing down
slowing up
bogging down
hanging up
holding back
obstructing
inhibiting
hampering
curbing
restraining
checking
handicapping
interfering with
restricting
encumbering
fettering
stalling
trammelling
trammeling
hamstringing
shackling
stopping
cumbering
blocking
thwarting
constraining
cramping
foiling
postponing
baulking
UK
clogging
preventing
stymieing
keeping back
balking
US
interrupting
frustrating
curtailing
crippling
deferring
choking
putting back
baffling
hobbling
handcuffing
hog-tying
halting
throwing a spanner in the works of
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
slackening
retardating
staying
borking
crimping
short-circuiting
manacling
tying up
barring
getting in the way of
deterring
making late
putting off
braking
bridling
reducing
lessening
decreasing
limiting
loitering
embarrassing
withholding
putting a brake on
closing off
shutting down
shutting off
choking off
taking down
backing off
bringing to screeching halt
keeping
rescheduling
getting in the way
holding over
forestalling
keeping waiting
shelving
suspending
remitting
proroguing
interfering
holding
ruining
sinking
controlling
getting bogged down
derailing
repressing
protracting
pausing
standing in the way of
holding off on
staving off
intermitting
prolonging
confining
causing to wait
averting
causing to stay
stunting
tempering
contravening
bottlenecking
prohibiting
counteracting
throwing a spanner in the works
crabbing
resisting
shutting out
opposing
burdening
lousing up
neutralizing
US
boxing in
debarring
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
muzzling
neutralising
UK
putting on hold
diminishing
lagging
moderating
abating
regulating
qualifying
procrastinating
quieting
reefing
reining in
cutting down
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
hitting the brakes
cutting back
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
inconveniencing
entangling
binding
debilitating
tying
leashing
putting in cold storage
putting over
standing over
putting off the evil day
tabling
putting off the evil hour
laying on the table
mothballing
adjourning
pigeonholing
putting on the back burner
continuing
taking a rain check on
carrying over
putting on ice
holding in abeyance
putting in abeyance
respiting
holding off
doing later
weighing down
cramping one's style
dragging one's feet
tiing one's hands
downing
faltering
hesitating
dawdling
poking
bogging
flagging
loafing
letting up
stifling
suppressing
nipping in the bud
straitening
disrupting
stonewalling
scuppering
smothering
defeating
precluding
hemming in
circumscribing
holding down
scotching
constricting
delimiting
saddling
tying down
quashing
loading
containing
chaining
putting a stop to
charging
lumbering
crushing
spoiling
bottling up
lading
circumventing
freezing
governing
obviating
putting an end to
warding off
heading off
weighting
catching
sabotaging
freighting
snookering
dashing
countering
taming
forbidding
interdicting
ruling out
intercepting
cutting off
fending off
corking
pulling in
subduing
keeping within bounds
squashing
stilling
disadvantaging
gagging
squelching
troubling
overloading
entrammelling
entrammeling
capping
nullifying
tethering
bounding
reining
killing
demarcating
stumping
discomfiting
taxing
stemming
landing
measuring
ruling
disappointing
drawing up
choking back
fixing
keeping in check
defining
pulling up
terminating
fetching up
putting an stop to
checkmating
demarking
holding in
saddling with
fouling up
screwing up
cooling
giving a hard time
shutting in
putting the kibosh on
forfending
keeping under control
impairing
overwhelming
incommoding
stultifying
discommoding
discontinuing
throttling
sandbagging
straining
overburdening
quelching
discouraging
swallowing
muffling
obscuring
securing
fazing
oppressing
strangling
garrotting
damping down
confounding
bitting
bringing up
damping
rattling
crossing
beating
imprisoning
stamping out
tying someone's hands
setting limits on
imposing limits on
overturning
upsetting
dampening
negating
damming
imposing
putting at a disadvantage
gaoling
UK
jailing
US
warding
keeping in
avoiding
annulling
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
turning aside
clipping someone's wings
enclosing
surrounding
repulsing
inflicting
bringing to a standstill
outwitting
putting paid to
specifying
placing at a disadvantage
locking up
encircling
stemming the flow of
holding in check
chillin
chilling
doing for
delimitating
prelimiting
defending against
marking off
putting away
pinning down
keeping lid on
giving the run around
keeping the lid on
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
keeping within limits
throwing cold water on
girdling
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
keeping a tight rein on
straitjacketing
ending
dissuading from
withstanding
bothering
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
snagging
acting against
sidelining
entrapping
fastening
disturbing
affecting
making difficult
holding captive
dragging feet
offsetting
bucking
bilking
preventing from making progress
influencing
tampering
disconcerting
confusing
giving disadvantage
taking out
cutting short
jamming
conflicting
putting straitjacket on
constipating
thrusting
pegging
fighting back
staunching
putting a crimp in
keeping within the limits of
corking up
rebuffing
throwing monkey wrench in
putting the damper on
scrubbing
bracing
dropping
sidetracking
setting
prescribing
putting out of commission
deflecting
forefending
picking off
extinguishing
silencing
submerging
deadening
destroying
pocketing
screening
standing in the way
placing a limit on
drawing the line on
complicating
anticipating
keeping off
staving
keeping at bay
puzzling
slackening pace
keeping a lid on
biting back
invalidating
scuttling
making impossible
bringing an end to
piling
playing for time
dissuading
knocking off
mystifying
standing
fencing
repelling
muting
quelling
overpowering
quenching
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
nobbling
undoing
parrying
nonplussing
yoking
putting a lead on
hitching up
putting a leash on
harnessing
tabooing
enjoining
outlawing
counterplotting
burying
blanking
confronting
shushing
flummoxing
wronging
bringing to an end
monkeying with
snowing
delineating
cornering
dead-ending
impounding
directing
reining back
guiding
hogtying
hogtieing
banjaxing
helping
pre-empting
saving
letting
tasking
upsetting one's apple cart
beating down
taking wind out of sails
putting the stopper on
messing up
getting the better of
putting end to
putting the mockers on
causing setback
making heavy
dumping on
bearing down on
snowing under
overcoming
licking
conquering
encompassing
environing
coming to a standstill
putting on brakes
treating harshly
scaring
diverting
disadvising
petering out
not moving
standing off
cracking down
keeping down
sitting on
pulling back
boxing up
hanging fire
worrying
telling against
treating unfavourably
inflicting a handicap on
doing a disservice to
putting in an unfavourable position
treating unfairly
giving a disadvantage to
having on a tight leash
bringing under control
keeping in line
pinioning
gyving
enfettering
enchaining
putting the lid on
weighing
imposing on
marking out
nailing down
outlining
upsetting the applecart
rendering null and void
dashing one's hope
turning off
chaining up
clapping
cuffing
putting on back burner
thrusting something on
acting like a wet blanket
fobbing something off on to
imposing something on
inflicting something on
talking out of
unloading something on
throwing a monkey wrench into
imposing upon
incarcerating
interning
putting in irons
clapping in irons
rationing
putting in chains
necessitating
concussing
fencing in
disallowing
closing in
depriving
locking in
banning
denying
shotgunning
immuring
cooping up
narrowing
contracting
inclosing
shortening
modifying
shrinking
vitiating
damaging
cooling off
putting a ceiling on
cooling down
coming down on
cutting down on
sending up
weakening
enfeebling
marring
hurting
paralysing
UK
harming
putting half nelson on
bankrupting
bloodying
compromising
blemishing
flawing
endamaging
injuring
paralyzing
US
crossing up
raining on someone's parade
more ❯
“Unfortunately, they do not accept the holiday season as a valid reason to
set back
the question of adjudication.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cost a given amount of money
costing
drawing
procuring
knocking back
coming to
amounting to
having a price of
running at
commanding a price of
selling at
going for
fetching
being
selling for
bringing in
bringing
setting one back
retailing at
selling
making
realizing
US
realising
UK
commanding
earning
netting
yielding
producing
running
raising
getting
pulling in
raking in
totaling
totalling
listing for
grossing
returning
attracting
securing
affording
marketing for
giving
“Shabby had just helped me pick out a new digital camera for myself that was going to
set me back
several hundred dollars.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to lower in rank
reducing
demoting
downgrading
lowering
lowering in rank
lowering in status
abasing
degrading
humbling
relegating
demeaning
belittling
declassing
devaluing
dismissing
undervaluing
bumping
debasing
denigrating
depreciating
humiliating
reverting
bringing down
bringing low
busting
casting down
cutting down to size
disgracing
kicking downstairs
marking down
reducing to the ranks
shaming
snubbing
taking down
taking down a peg
tearing down
crushing
breaking
disrating
lowering the status of
benching
demeriting
cheapening
depressing
attenuating
sinking
devaluating
writing down
devalorizing
ruining
decreasing
displacing
unseating
deposing
dethroning
ousting
cashiering
drumming out
moving down
reducing in rank
holding back
stripping of rank
removing from office
discrediting
chastening
smirching
dishonoring
US
fouling
dishonouring
UK
bemeaning
mortifying
demoralizing
US
demoralising
UK
putting down
corrupting
perverting
vitiating
subverting
depraving
warping
deteriorating
debauching
poisoning
bastardizing
US
lessening
prostituting
profaning
disparaging
cankering
embarrassing
abashing
bastardising
UK
panning
shooting down
harming
subduing
damaging
diminishing
undermining
stooping
condescending
chagrining
discomfiting
deigning
decrying
derogating
detracting
owning
deflating
slamming
descending
squashing
making a fool of
causing to lose face
running down
putting to shame
settling someone's hash
making someone eat humble pie
taking down a peg or two
making someone eat crow
tarnishing
blemishing
crippling
blackening
scorning
insulting
despising
contemning
injuring
debilitating
quashing
reducing the status of
dragging down
dragging through the mud
succumbing
ripping
blistering
discountenancing
smearing
withering
marring
playing down
showing up
vanquishing
downplaying
confusing
confounding
causing to feel small
putting out of countenance
taking the wind out of someone's sails
making ashamed
lowering oneself
debasing oneself
debasing yourself
lowering yourself
knocking down
dissing
demeaning oneself
bad-mouthing
demeaning yourself
weakening
spoiling
desensitizing
US
dehumanizing
US
brutalizing
US
dehumanising
UK
brutalising
UK
desensitising
UK
destroying
bringing shame to
cutting down
overcoming
upsetting
squelching
silencing
putting away
pulling down
striking dumb
popping one's balloon
fixing someone's wagon
cutting to the quick
making one feel small
putting one away
forcing to eat humble pie
making eat dirt
putting someone in their place
bringing down a peg
crawling
subjugating
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to diminish the confidence or courage of
unnerving
daunting
discouraging
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
dismaying
disconcerting
disheartening
dispiriting
upsetting
frightening
shaking
unmanning
alarming
flustering
rattling
confounding
cowing
dejecting
perturbing
agitating
discomfiting
discomposing
distressing
disturbing
fazing
throwing
unsettling
disarming
disquieting
intimidating
jolting
ruffling
startling
chilling
chillin
discombobulating
frustrating
panicking
stunning
stupefying
taking aback
unhinging
bewildering
buffaloing
distracting
enervating
enfeebling
flooring
needling
nonplussing
riding
sapping
scaring
spooking
surprising
uncalming
undermining
weakening
worrying
shaking up
bowling over
getting to
putting into a flap
throwing into a tizz
throwing off
throwing off balance
giving a turn
psyching out
putting someone off their stroke
putting the wind up
causing someone to lose their composure
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fend off or defend against something hostile
repulsing
repelling
checking
rebutting
fending off
staving off
beating off
defeating
driving away
driving back
fighting off
foiling
fighting back
forcing back
frustrating
holding off
rebuffing
beating back
deterring
heave-hoing
nixing
overthrowing
putting to flight
resisting
thrusting back
turning away
turning back
warding off
seeing off
sending packing
brushing off
forcing away
holding back
keeping off
putting down
keeping at bay
throwing back
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▲
Present participle for to become embroiled or implicated in
miring
embroiling
entangling
involving
enmeshing
broiling
embrangling
bogging down
clinging
detaining
ensnaring
entrapping
floundering
implicating
snaring
sticking
tangling
trapping
mixing up
tangling up
catching up
hanging up
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