- Drawback
- Setback
- Stumbling block
- Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial
quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders
success, or causes loss or injury.
- Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest,
fame, credit, profit, or other good.
- To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
- A set-back
- About-turn
- Endlessly revere little Sally; that’s an about-face
- Setback
- Turnaround
- Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
- The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an
opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the
reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
- Back-sliding
- Backslide
- Fall back into illness
- Fall ill again when regarding a drop in standard
- Get worse as leper mishandled minor transgression
- Regress
- Return of ill health
- Plant disease
- Scourge
- Setback
- To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth
and fertility of.
- Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
- To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.
- Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as
a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the
whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or
atmospheric influences.
- A punch
- Expel air through pursed lips
- Hard punch
- Puff
- Sound a horn
- Strong wind
- Sudden misfortune