English to English Dictionary -retarder

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Retard :: Retard (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..

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations..

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

Retard :: Retard (n.) Retardation; delay.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

Retarded :: Retarded (imp. & p. p.) of Retar.

Retarder :: Retarder (n.) One who, or that which, retards..

Retarding :: Retarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retar.

Retardment :: Retardment (n.) The act of retarding; retardation.