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Misfortune that TV repairman may bring?
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setback
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also set-back , 1670s, "reversal, check to progress," from set (v.) + back (adv.). Sometimes backset was used in the same sense. Meaning "space between a building and a property line" is from 1916. To set (someone) back "cost" is from 1900.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. an unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse , reversal , blow , black eye ]
Usage examples of setback.
Penn Brown is searching for a way onto the ice, but the cliffs that loom above them, although terraced, rise up from the floor of the chasma in setbacks fifty meters high.
And so the superstition fed upon the results, since a house weakened would suffer setbacks, and so seem to be in the disfavor of the gods.
He was a callow youth with a simple idea of lawbreaking and had suffered no setbacks in the wars of love.
This setback had in no way deterred the mujahedin and at first the operation had gone extremely well.
But on second thought, after careful reconsideration, Bonelli reed that the setback to his military arm might be a blessing in disguise.
Then Vern Feck brought his linebackers over and we got Randy King to center for us so we could practice defending against the blitz, two setbacks and the center against blitz variations by the three linebackers.
The anxiety resulting from this setback interrupted my dreaming practices altogether.
Despite the setbacks Jacen had engineered with the dhuryam-the World Brain-the Yuuzhan Vong shapers seemed to be making headway.
Instead, unseen setbacks such as labor shortages, food scarcity, and changing social patterns greatly affected the marketplace.
Her reactions to their setbacks grew more heated, as if disrespect of the Vipers was disrespect of her.
Ingrith, she who was patron of weavers and benefactor to every person who has faced down and wrestled with an unexpected setback.
Rumors that Austen had a history of periodic bouts of depression and that he had experienced recent financial setbacks and was facing an impending lawsuit from a former patient led authorities to speculate that he committed suicide.
The dissemination of Intertech's antimutagen was only a setback, not a defeat.
It had been a progressive emergence of intelligence, some cultures having arisen on worlds where, for one reason or another, the pace of evolutionary change was slower than the norm, or life's ascendancy was subject to more than the usual quota of catastrophic setbacks.
It's all my fault, she thought, trying to ease her conscience by reminding herself of all the glum NASA press conferences of the past year—the space station setbacks, the postponement of the X-33, all the failed Mars probes, continuous budget bailouts.