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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
  2. v. To be delayed.
  3. n. A slowing down or hindering of progress; a delay.
  4. n. Music A slackening of tempo.
  5. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a mentally retarded person.
  6. n. Offensive Slang A person considered to be foolish or socially inept.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make slow or slower; obstruct in motion or progress; delay; impede; clog; hinder.
  2. To defer; postpone; put off.
  3. Synonyms To detain, delay.
  4. To be delayed or later than usual.
  5. n. Retardation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Retardation; delay.
  2. n. slang, offensive A person with mental retardation.
  3. n. slang, offensive A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
  4. v. transitive To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
  5. v. transitive To put off; to postpone.
  6. v. transitive, obsolete To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
  7. v. intransitive To decelerate; to slow down.
  8. v. intransitive, obsolete To stay back.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; ; -- opposed to accelerate.
  2. v. To put off; to postpone
  3. v. obsolete To stay back.
  4. n. Retardation; delay.
  5. n. Colloq. and disparaging A mentally retarded person.
  6. n. Colloq. and disparaging a person who is stupid or inept, especially in social situations.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lose velocity; move more slowly
  2. n. a person of subnormal intelligence
  3. v. cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate
  4. v. be delayed
  5. v. slow the growth or development of

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman or Latin, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retardāre ("to retard"), from re- + tardus ("slow") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English retarden, from Old French retarder, from Latin retardāre : re-, re- + tardāre, to delay (from tardus, slow).Short for retarded. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • higgurl91 Being called a retard is not nice at all... Jan 15, 2010

  • reesetee We wish we were as clever as owls. Mar 25, 2009

  • lea I hate to be politically incorrect and insult birds. Mar 25, 2009

  • oroboros RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
    Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65." Apr 8, 2008

  • pomegranate A widely used word in the sixties but very much a politically-incorrect insult today. I also like its short form - "tard". Dec 4, 2007

  • krullulon who doesn't like the word "retard"? it's universally beloved. Dec 9, 2006

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‘retard’ has been looked up 2531 times, added to 29 lists, commented on 6 times, and has a Scrabble score of 7.