Retards synonyms

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delays
To delay is defined as to postpone, make late or stop for awhile.
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checks
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
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slows
Slowly.
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prevents
To keep from happening; avert:
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obstructs
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
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inhibits
To hinder; to restrain
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impedes
To impede is defined as to block or temporarily keep something from going forward.
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hinders
To keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
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hampers
To keep from moving or acting freely; hinder; impede; encumber
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fetters
To restrict or restrain:
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clogs
To hinder; impede
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brakes
To slow down or stop with or as with a brake
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baffles
To interfere with; hinder; impede
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stalls
To employ delaying tactics:
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lags
(Sports) In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.
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detains
To detain is defined as to keep someone somewhere or cause someone to be unable to proceed.
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accelerates (antonym)
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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pushes (antonym)
(Intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
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helps (antonym)
To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot:
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advances (antonym)
To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
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expedites (antonym)
To speed up or make easy the progress or action of; hasten; facilitate
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Retards Sentence Examples

  • Suppose now that the plate is introduced so as to cover half the aperture and that it retards those pulses which would otherwise arrive first.

  • Oxide of zinc, like most heavy metallic oxides, is easily reduced to the metallic state by heating it to redness with charcoal; pure red zinc ore may be treated directly; and the same might be done with pure calamine of any kind, because the carbon dioxide of the zinc carbonate goes off below redness and the silica of zinc silicate only retards, but does not prevent, the reducing action of the charcoal.

  • He closes one epoch of Old Testament criticism; by his influence he retards the development of the next.

  • A rule requiring the presence of six judges to pronounce a decision prevents the division of the court into two or more benches; and while this secures a thorough consideration of every case, it also retards the despatch of business.

  • The heat evolved by this process of solidification retards the fall of temperature; but after this the rate of cooling remains regular until T (750°) on the line Sa (Ar 3) is reached, when a second retardation occurs, due to the heat liberated by the passage within the pasty mass of part of the iron and carbon from a state of mere solution to that of definite combination in the ratio Fe 3 C, forming microscopic particles of cementite, while the remainder of the iron and carbon continue dissolved in each other as austenite.

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