2. Verb. (third-person singular of retard) ¹
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Definition of Retards
1. retard [v] - See also: retard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retards
Literary usage of Retards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1814)
"Consumes with anguish, lest the slaughtering sword retards his eagerness: Meanwhile
his heart Should fail, or royal clemency awake. ..."
2. Industrial Depressions: Their Causes Analysed and Classified with a by George Huntington Hull (1911)
"... at one period and retards production at another, with equal consistency.
It is just as certainly in existence and in full action when it quietly and ..."
3. Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of by Commission on Christian Education (1915)
"You shall know that the world is at last awake— You shall hear the cry that the
mothers make— You shall yield—for the mothers' sake! WAR retards HUMAN ..."
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