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Set back

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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: amount
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: total

Synonyms:

addition, aggregate, all, bad news, body, budget, cost, damage*, entirety, expense, extent, list, lot, net, outlay, output, price tag, product, quantum, score, set-back, sum, tab, tidy sum, whole
Notes: use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted
number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money
Main Entry: bog down
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stick; become stuck

Synonyms:

decelerate, delay, detain, halt, hang up, impede, retard, set back, sink, slacken, slow down, slow up, stall
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: depressed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concave, pushed down

Synonyms:

hollow, indented, recessed, set back, sunken

Antonyms:

bulging, convex, pushed up, raised
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
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