Setback vs Rebuke - What's the difference?
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An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
(US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
(architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
(possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
A harsh criticism.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
To criticise harshly; to reprove.
Setback is a related term of rebuke.
As nouns the difference between setback and rebuke
is that setback is an obstacle, delay, or disadvantage while rebuke is a harsh criticism.As a verb rebuke is
to criticise harshly; to reprove.setback
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(en noun)- After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.
- Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
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*rebuke
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(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.