setback
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setback
- An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
- After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
- The required distance between a structure and a road.
- (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
- A backset; a check; a repulse; a ; a relapse.
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of abcekst
- backest
