Dictionary Entry
retard
retard is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
- 3intransitive verb
To stay back.
- 4noun
Retardation; delay.
- 5noun
a person of subnormal intelligence
- 6verb
cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
"This drug will retard your heart rate"
- 7verb
lose velocity; move more slowly
"The car decelerated"
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- 8verb
slow the growth or development of
"The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
- 9verb
be delayed
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