Crossword clues for retarding
retarding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retard \Re*tard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retarding.] [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re- re- + tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F. retarder. See Tardy.]
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.
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To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
Syn: To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of retard English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "retarding".
Moreover, the working of the dry method has been monopolised by a small ring of assayers, with the double result of exciting outside jealousy and, worse still, of retarding the development and improvement of the process.
The Culture-instincts will always resist disease elements, whether parasitical, retarding, or distorting.
It should be noted first that the smut fungus is living at the expense of its host plant, the wheat, and its effect on the host may be summarized as follows: The consumption of food, the destruction of food in the sporulating process, and the stimulating or retarding effect on normal physiological processes.
Some chance interaction of the magical energies playing about the battleground was retarding its transition to the physical plane.
I see little hope of retarding the growth of the residential power demand until scientists can apply highly-skilled analysis to the female and the particular, unanalyzable, unscientific, uncontrolled phenomena of their power consumption.
Doc repeated the holding instructions and dialed in the radio beacon while Scott guided the Boeing to the left, his right hand retarding the throttles to slow to a speed of two hundred forty knots, trying not to focus on how much he just wanted to be finished with this flight.
But the mountainous waves took her with irresistible force from her chesstree, retarding her velocity, and forcing her each moment nearer to the reef.
I was somewhat embarrassed by the honor paid to myself as the originator of a means of retarding the Black Rot, and could only feel that my inspiration had been merely a fortunate accident.
Might it be, I wondered, that the omega-3 fatty acids and the three-vegetables-per-meal I consumed were responsible for retarding my sexual maturity?
Once their velocity had been brought up to the desired value, it was easy to maintain it with the infinitely small friction of space as the only retarding force.
Nerado thrilled with joy as he applied a full retarding force, and every creature aboard that great vessel had to peer into a plate or through a telescope before he could believe that planets other than Nevia did in reality exist!
Let Taranto try as it will to be modern and progressive, there is a retarding force which shows little sign of being overcome—.