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retardeth

retardeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retard.

Meaning of retard

Verb

retard (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.
    • retard the march of an army
  2. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
    • to retard the attacks of old age
    Synonyms:
    postpone
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
  4. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
    • 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, retard, retard...2019, Airbus A350 - Landing (Retard) (YouTube), cockpit voice (actor)
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.
    • Some years it [The River Nile] hath also retarded, and come far later than usually it was expected1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hang back

See all 9 meanings of retard

Origin of retardeth

retard + -eth

Questions about retardeth

What is retardeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Retardeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retard.

Words near retardeth in the dictionary

  1. retardees
  2. retardency
  3. retarder
  4. retarders
  5. retardest
  6. retardeth
  7. retardical
  8. retardican
  9. retardicans
  10. retarding
  11. retarding basin

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