Word Meaning

Meaning of "retard" and the crossword clue

- Delay or hold back progress
- Hold back
- Impede
- Inhibit
- Keep
- Keep back or hinder
- 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.
- Retardation; delay.