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/rɪtˈɑrd/ /ritˈɑrd/ Listen

verb

Retard v. t. (past & past part. retarded; pres. part. retarding)

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.

Synonyms: To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer.

Retard v. i. To stay back. (Obs.)

noun

Retard n.

1.

Retardation; delay.

2.

A mentally retarded person. (Colloq. and disparaging)

3.

A person who is stupid or inept, especially in social situations. (Colloq. and disparaging)

Retard of the tide, or 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 immediately 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retard" Quotes from Famous Books

... type of mind which lacks the capacity for unity and co-operation with others. He illustrated, too, one of the difficult features of Macdonald's problem—the absence of unity among the public men of the time—a condition which complicated, if it did not retard, the formation of a homogeneous ...

— The Fathers of Confederation - A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion • A. H. U. Colquhoun

... and as a highway for belligerant parties of different nations, in their military expeditions against each other. In consequence of the almost continued hostilities between the northern and southern Indians, these expeditions were very frequent, and tended somewhat to retard the settlement of the valley, and render a residence in it, for some time, insecure and unpleasant. Between the Alleghany mountains and the Ohio river, within the present limits of Virginia, there were some villages ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... of mind and spirit are far more powerful and destructive than dynamite. It is not meant by this that he can blow himself up thereby, but it does mean that he can injure himself, not only in this life, but for ages to come, and, in addition, seriously retard ...

— Within You is the Power • Henry Thomas Hamblin

... sorts—such as the Black Damascus, Cannon Hall Muscat, &c.—will set better by thinning the blossom-buds before expansion, by which a more regular and compact bunch will be produced. Late Vines should be pruned and dressed; and if not frosty the lights to be removed, which will retard their breaking, and ...

— In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year • William Keane

... manufacturing aircraft in a small way and there was practically speaking no engine industry at all. For the Royal Flying Corps, the War Office had relied largely on the Royal Aircraft Factory, and, although the methods of control adopted had many advantages, there was in them a tendency to retard private enterprise and development. The Admiralty, on the other hand, had assisted by dealing almost entirely with firms for Royal Naval Air Service supply. The conditions in France fortunately were very much better than those ...

— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

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