Retarding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETARDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• RETARD, to hold back
• delay or hold back in terms of progress or development
NOUN:
• a person who has a mental disability (often used as a general term of abuse).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to slow the progress of

Words related to RETARDING

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How to use RETARDING in a sentence

• An accident which happened to his colleague allowed an excuse for retarding his journey.
• But it is beneficial when its retarding influence is such as only to detain the mind longer on the thought, and thus to secure the fuller effect of the thought.
• The retarding of the current as it passes through the water is a difficulty that does not exist with the land telegraph stretched on poles.
• Faraday had demonstrated that this retarding was caused by induction between the electricity in the wire and the water about the cable.
• These expeditions are the most effectual mode of retarding American progress, although to promote this is the avowed object of the leaders and contributors in such undertakings.
• Because of the opposition in the nature-ground between the stimulating and the retarding activity, the law of duality everywhere rules.
• It was just as though some Will, some Will, was obstructing and retarding me.
• The wind was favourable, but we advanced slowly, the floating mass that we had to tug retarding us.
• This does not make for advance ultimately in any branch of labor, but is one of the worst retarding influences to the whole movement.
• Crossing the frontier, Count Thurn boldly entered Austria and, meeting no foe capable of retarding his steps, he pushed vigorously on even to the very gates of Vienna.
• It can hardly be questioned or doubted that if the war had been bitterly resented by the masses it would have precipitated revolution instead of retarding it.
• Starting to join Vespasian, he prolonged his journey by various expedients, retarding or hastening his pace according to the nature of the news he received.
• Nature understands better than we the value of retarding influences, which prevent the too rapid fusing of crude elements.
• Let A A A represent the retarding action of the air acting on different points of the forward half or face of the ball.
• The damage, however, was so immediately repaired, that it had no sort of effect in disconcerting any plan, or even in retarding any naval preparation.
• This affair, however, had the effect of retarding that peace which was now so much desired on both sides of the Atlantic.
• So then, Sir, New England is guiltless of the policy of retarding Western population, and of all envy and jealousy of the growth of the new States.
• He caught at the sides as he fell, but without retarding his fall.
• Mentally, he was running to and fro in the hope of retarding the flames that were eating him for their fuel.
• November gales and December storms wreaked all their fury upon the ship, retarding its progress so long that January arrived before she had reached Chesapeake Bay.
• The retarding effect of the Rebellion, and the long start already obtained by Great Britain in the industrial race, are factors beyond accurate calculation.
• Here again the effect of the proximity of a bed of snow in retarding vegetation was most evident.
• After 1822, Neptune, in passing from E to D, had been retarding Uranus in his orbit from B to A.
• These pests were brought to this country in which there were no conditions retarding their increase and have produced great damage.

Similar words containing TARD without suffix ing and without prefix re

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