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Definition & Synonyms
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• Retard
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms:
Changeling, Check, Cretin, Delay, Half-wit, Idiot, Imbecile, Moron, Slow,
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• Retardment
- (n.) The act of retarding; retardation.
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• Retarder
- (n.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action.
- (n.) Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire.
- (n.) One who, or that which, retards.
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• Retardative
- (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard.
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Skinflints, Prior, Pathetic, Discomfited, Advertisement, Tomorrow, Texting, Kashmir Goat, Honeydew, Back, Survey, Curarization, Exploited, Curari, Busines, Objection, Curableness, Deterioration, Meaning, Confinement, Flower, Deterioration, Affecting, Happy, Chromogens, Hooligan, Translation, Psychology, Honeydew, Bounce, Covent Garden, Nyion, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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