retard
ri tord
- n a person of subnormal intelligence
- v cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
This drug will retard your heart rate - v be delayed
- v slow the growth or development of
The brain damage will retard the child's language development - v lose velocity; move more slowly
- And Prozac, the drug that carried bewildered Gen X-ers through the '90s, can retard growth in kids and adolescents.
- In the first study, involving 1,468 prostate-cancer patients receiving testosterone-depleting therapy which can retard the growth of tumors but increases the risk of brittle .
- That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student.