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Definition of Retard

1. Noun. A person of subnormal intelligence.

2. Verb. Cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate. "This drug will retard your heart rate"

3. Verb. Be delayed.

4. Verb. Slow the growth or development of. "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"

5. Verb. Lose velocity; move more slowly. "The car decelerated"

Definition of Retard

1. 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.

2. v. i. To stay back.

3. n. Retardation; delay.

Definition of Retard

1. Noun. Retardation; delay. ¹

2. Noun. (offensive slang) A person with mental retardation. ¹

3. Noun. (offensive slang) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To put off; to postpone. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something). ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To stay back. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retard

1. to slow the progress of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Retard

1. Characterised by retarded action, said of a drug when it is supposed to exercise its maximum effect later in the cycle. (10 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retard

retaliator retaliatorily retaliators retaliatory retaliatory eviction retallied retallies retally retallying retamas

retapamulin retape retaped retapes retaping retard (current term) retardance retardant retardants retardate

retardates retardation retardation plate retardational retardations retardative retarded retarded dentition retarded depression retardedly

Literary usage of Retard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"If the poison of typhoid fever could be completely antagonized, all the effects, which retard recovery would be obviated, and a rapid convalescence would ..."

2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"serves to retard labours so beneficial to the citizens. We make due allow anee for the very natural anxiety of families ; but why retard, by solicitations ..."

3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"serves to retard labours so beneficial to the citizens. We make due allow anee for the very natural anxiety of families ; but why retard, by solicitations ..."

4. Public Debts: An Essay in the Science of Finance by Henry Carter Adams (1887)
"... payment of the principal of a debt has no tendency to retard the industrial development of a nation, the entire course of reasoning falls to the ground. ..."

5. Public Debts: An Essay in the Science of Finance by Henry Carter Adams (1887)
"... payment of the principal of a debt has no tendency to retard the industrial development of a nation, the entire course of reasoning falls to the ground. ..."

6. Public Debts: An Essay in the Science of Finance by Henry Carter Adams (1890)
"... payment of the principal of a debt has no tendency to retard the industrial development of a nation, the entire course of reasoning falls to the ground. ..."

7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"... or of vigor and maturity of body and quickness and presence of mind, was the most competent to baffle aud retard the approaches of death, ..."

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