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  • English Word Retard Definition To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
  • English Word Retard Definition To stay back.
  • English Word Retard Definition Retardation; delay.
  • English Word Retardation Definition The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
  • English Word Retardation Definition That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
  • English Word Retardation Definition The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
  • English Word Retardation Definition The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
  • English Word Retardative Definition Tending, or serving, to retard.
  • English Word Retarded Definition of Retard
  • English Word Retarder Definition One who, or that which, retards.
  • English Word Retarding Definition of Retard
  • English Word Retardment Definition The act of retarding; retardation.
  • English Word Retch Definition To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
  • English Word Retch Definition To care for; to heed; to reck.
  • English Word Retched Definition of Retch
  • English Word Retching Definition of Retch
  • English Word Retchless Definition Careless; reckless.
  • English Word Rete Definition A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
  • English Word Retecious Definition Resembling network; retiform.
  • English Word Retection Definition Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.
  • English Word Retell Definition To tell again.
  • English Word Retene Definition A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
  • English Word Retent Definition That which is retained.
  • English Word Retention Definition The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
  • English Word Retention Definition The power of retaining; retentiveness.
  • English Word Retention Definition That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
  • English Word Retention Definition The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
  • English Word Retention Definition Place of custody or confinement.
  • English Word Retention Definition The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
  • English Word Retentive Definition Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.