Word Meanings - RETARDMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.

Related words: (words related to RETARDMENT)

• RETARDATION
  The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards. 4. The extent to which anything
• RETARDATIVE
  Tending, or serving, to retard.
• RETARDMENT
  The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.
• RETARDER
  One who, or that which, retards.
• RETARD
  1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: accelerate. 2. To put