retard

[re·tard]

To retard something is to slow it down. A lack of fresh fruit and vegetables can retard the growth of a young child.

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To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.

Noun
a person of subnormal intelligence

Verb
cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"

Verb
lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"

Verb
slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child''s language development"

Verb
be delayed

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v. t.
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.

v. t.
To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.

v. i.
To stay back.

n.
Retardation; delay.

Retard

Re*tard" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retarding.] [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re- re- + tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F. retarder. See Tardy.] 1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate. 2. To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. Syn. -- To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer.

Retard

Re*tard", v. i. To stay back. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

Retard

Re*tard", n. Retardation; delay. Retard, ∨ Age, of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediatelly proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under Retardation. rHam. Nav. Encyc.

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.

To stay back.

Retardation; delay.

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