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   Re·tard

   verb

   • 1. delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment: "our progress was retarded by unforeseen difficulties"

   noun

   • 1. a person who has an intellectual disability (often used as a general term of abuse). offensive

   Word Origin late 15th century: from French retarder, from Latin retardare, from re- ‘back’ + tardus ‘slow’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. retardative adjective
   • 2. retardatory adjective
   • 3. retarder noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • R

     1

   • E

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   • T

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   • A

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   • R

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   • D

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