Vocabulary : Retaliated to Retarder

Retaliated : of Retaliate
Retaliating : of Retaliate
Retaliation : The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Retaliative : Same as Retaliatory.
Retaliatory : Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

Retard : 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 accelerate. ;; To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. ;; To stay back. ;; Retardation; delay.
Retardation : The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration. ;; That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. ;; 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. ;; The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
Retardative : Tending, or serving, to retard.
Retarded : of Retard
Retarder : Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire. ;; A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action. ;; One who, or that which, retards.

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