Retarded
[rɪ'tɑːdɪd] or [rɪ'tɑrdɪd]
Definition
(adj.) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; 'providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded' .
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Retard
Typist: Sanford
Examples
- The result would often be greatly retarded by free intercrossing. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Ten loaded hammocks retarded its pace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It may be retarded; but that is all. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The collision had retarded our progress and now a hundred swift scouts were close upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In fact the growth of the newly opened Western country must have been indefinitely retarded if men had had to cut the grain by hand and harvest it in the primitive manner. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The heavy overhanging timber retarded progress very much, as did also the short turns in so narrow a stream. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would be hard to find a line of business where progress would not be seriously retarded by an impairment of the present telephone efficiency. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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