knockback

A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.

He lifted his hand in a knockback spell, which would send me sailing right into the zombie.

Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback.

[…]the chemo had not worked and had gone back into his brain.[…]He had knockback after knockback. It would have taken its toll on anyone.

Despite all the knockbacks from COVID, as an industry we are ready for the turnaround and more than ready to welcome back passengers returning from lockdown.

A rejection; a refusal.

He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops.

The only other knockback in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises.