Definition of "retard"

retard

/ɹɪˈtɑː(ɹ)d/

noun
plural retards
1. Retardation; delay.
2. (music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
3. (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
4. (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
  Quotations
  “That's 'cause your dog is a retard,” the large woman retorted. The pit bull must have sensed the insult because it got up on all fours and started barking at the woman. Not one to back down from an interspecies fight, the prison lady stood up […]
  2007, Doug Green, No Wife No Kids No Plan
verb
third-person singular simple present retards, present participle retarding, simple past and past participle retarded
1. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
2. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
4. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
  Quotations
  70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, retard, retard...
  2019, Airbus A350 - Landing (Retard) (YouTube)‎, cockpit voice (actor)
  This application of hydraulics led Sir George Dowty to develop the wagon retarder system, which comprised small hydraulic rams mounted inside the rail. These rams could simply retard a wagon, or both retard and 'boost' or speed up a wagon by hydraulic pressure.
  2021 June 2, Michael Rhodes, “Tinsley reborn...”, in RAIL, number 932, pages 35–36
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.
  Quotations
  Some years it [The River Nile] hath also retarded, and come far later than usually it was expected
  1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]

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