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retardings

retardings is the plural of retarding.

Meaning of retarding

Noun

retarding (plural retardings)

  1. A slowing or hindrance.
    • It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Questions about retardings

What is retardings the plural of?
Retardings is the plural of retarding.

Words near retardings in the dictionary

  1. retardicans
  2. retarding
  3. retarding basin
  4. retarding basins
  5. retardingly
  6. retardings
  7. retardism
  8. retardive
  9. retardively
  10. retardlican
  11. retardlicans

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