retard
verb (used with object)
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
have retarded
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present perfectof retard.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Ninety percent of children born with the condition will have retarded mental and physical development, experts say.
From Reuters ● Feb. 1, 2016
Soaring costs and the scarcity of practitioners and facilities in many areas have retarded the development of preventive medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
From C.I.O. came charges that Hillman "with stealthy efforts" was trying to make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry."
From Time Magazine Archive
At that time it would have cost immense sums of money and many lives to conquer him, and would have retarded the development of the West by many years.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Charles Alexander Eastman
I could name popular painters now living, who have retarded the taste of their generation by twenty years.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin
