retardation
Collocations
2ADJ.
initial, reduced
VERB + RETARDATION
stages
Definitions
noun
The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
Ellipsis of mental retardation.
Me and my friends used to feed LSD to this little retarded girl in our neighborhood and we'd lock arms around her and go "nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare!" It actually cured her retardation.
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Synonyms
noun — the act of slowing down or falling behind
- slowdown
- lag
noun — a decrease in rate of change
- deceleration
- slowing
noun — lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- backwardness
- slowness
- subnormality
noun — any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- retardant
- retardent
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3Me and my friends used to feed LSD to this little retarded girl in our neighborhood and we'd lock arms around her and go "nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! N
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Wiktionary[...] the effect is automatically to select a braking force which is higher at above 40 m.p.h., in the initial stages of retardation, but is reduced as the speed falls below 40 m.p.h.
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