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• 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.

• idiot
• imbecile
• cretin
• moron
• changeling
• half-wit
• check
• delay
• decelerate
• slow
• slow down
• slow up

• accelerate

News & Articles

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• Let’s do away with retard – Larry Mendte
  The words retard a retarded are making a comeback. You hear the words used on talk shows and movies more and more. It is supposed to be funny. It’s not. It is a word used to hurt the most innocent …
  June 20, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York

Quotes

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• Pervez Musharraf in Kansas City Star
  These terrorists and extremist elements must not retard the country's economic development by their senseless acts,Musharraf said, according to state-run Pakistan Radio.
• Lou Reed in Sunday Times.au
  It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen by any illiterate retard in a long time,Reed said.
• Goodluck Jonathan in AFP
  The excessive dumping of small arms and light weapons in Africa is one of the major factors that retard the economic growth of the continent,he said.