meaning of retards
1. 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.
2. To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
3. To stay back.
4. Retardation; delay.
5. a person of subnormal intelligence
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