Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of retarding or delaying; retardation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
slowing ordelaying ;retardation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fek, I done read that there and I dint notice no dang differnce in my level of tardation.
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No I did not forget but I HAVE heard him speak and that is the slight 'tardation from which I speak.
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And in Britney's case, when you have a family tree that doesn't fork and relatives thrangled with a touch of 'tardation ... you might want to put the Strawberry Hill, Boone's, and moonshine down for nine months.
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Ladies, there's your future breeding stock helping to spread the 'tardation.
Archive 2008-03-01 CC 2008
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In London it appears, that there is a re* tardation of the decreafe in the probabilities
Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing Annuities ... 1773
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“ “ “, 2002, “Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: the Case of M.ntal R.tardation”, in R. R.odes, M. Battin and A. Silvers (eds.), Health Care and Distributive Justice, 290 “ 300, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Feminist Perspectives on Disability Silvers, Anita 2009
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