Set Back Sth Meaning Make Happen Slowly Time

Meaning: to make something happen more slowly, or at a later time, than it would have

• set back sth A change of government would set back the process of health reform.
  
  
• set sth back He's had another small stroke, and this will set his recovery back a bit, I'm afraid.
  
  
• be set back by sth The building's completion date was set back a few weeks by the floods.