Retard Synonyms & Definitions

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• RetardDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
2. (v. i.) To stay back.
3. (n.) Retardation; delay.
4. (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.

• RetardativeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard.

• RetarderDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action.
2. (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.
3. (n.) One who, or that which, retards.