Retard is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETARD in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hold back
• delay or hold back in terms of progress or development
• delay or slow (progress or development)
• 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.
• To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
• To stay back.
• cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
• be delayed
• slow the growth or development of
• lose velocity; move more slowly
NOUN:
• a person who has a mental disability (often used as a general term of abuse).
• Retardation; delay.
• a person of subnormal intelligence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to slow the progress of

Words related to RETARD

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Words that contain RETARD

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How to use RETARD in a sentence

• Caesar having sent forward his cavalry, to annoy and retard their rear, followed close after with his legions.
• Nothing the prisoner could argue, cite, or state, was permitted to retard for a moment the march of the case towards its catastrophe.
• I will by no means retard my conquest which I have so much desired.
• Browne, weak and suffering from torture and exposure, struggled bravely along, determined not to retard their progress by a single movement of indecision.
• God hasten the time, and keep us also from doing anything to retard, but everything to help it forward, and to His name be the praise forever.
• As regards the minimum wage, the objection raised by certain among the conservative labor leaders has been that it will retard organization and check independence of spirit.
• Those who strive to hurry it retard it, those who work to drag it back hasten it.
• Mines were resorted to in front of the Flag-staff Bastion to retard the French approaches.
• North in the rear to back them up and to retard matters generally, we are in for a siege to which purgatory, if we ever go there, will seem restful, Richard my son.
• His heavy heart did not retard the progress of his statue or make its beauty indifferent.
• Another factor also contributed to retard the artistic development of opera.
• However, his cruelties did not retard his military operations, which were carried on with a spirit becoming a better monarch.
• It is generally advantageous for your Pawns to occupy the middle of the board, because when there they greatly retard the movements of the opposing forces.
• Some of the mules were killed and wounded, but this did not retard the advance of the train.
• A more hasty conduct might occasion loss, and retard, instead of encouraging, the establishment of this commerce.
• Every day you lose, will retard a day your entrance on that public stage whereon you may begin to be useful to yourself.
• They can retard it or let it escape, can color it bright or dark, and exert a ceaseless and ever varying influence upon it long before it ceases and up to its very end.
• Flight, if it were even successful for the moment, did but a little retard his inevitable doom.
• Should it be found that the fermentation is going on too rapidly, a little lime may be thrown in, which will retard it.
• Canning, however, asserted that government only wished to retard a little the attainment of the object, in order that they might arrive at it with greater security.
• He even tried to retard his march, if he felt that Tom was getting tired.
• Even, when we know what the good of the community consists in, it is not always easy to say what course of action will promote it, or what course of action is likely to retard it.
• So, to-day, I fear that there are savage elements in our civilization which hear the advancing tread of the negro and would retard his coming.
• We skim too closely to the earth, We press too slowly for the prize, Let thoughts and cares of trivial worth Retard our journey to the skies.
• As the dispatches confided to Captain Palmer were of great moment, he determined to run every hazard rather than retard their delivery.

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