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retard

(Delay), verb check, countercheck, defer, ease off, hamper, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, procrastinate, stall, stem

retard

(Obstruct), verb arrest, bar, block, check, clog, condemn, constrict, control, cramp, curb, debar, diminish, disadvantage, discontinue, encumber, entrammel, hamper, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, interrupt, occlude, preclude, prevent, thwart, trammel, withstand

retard

(Slow up), verb brake, check, crawl, dawdle, decelerate, hamper, hinder, inhibit, interfere, linger, move slowly, slow down

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These gas jets can either retard or advance the comet's date of return.

New orbital model details comet gas effects

Le directeur des travaux publics deplore les retards que vont connaEtre les travaux de realisation des quatre tremies sur le troisieme boulevard peripherique alors que le retard accuse par celles de Coca et Les Amandiers a ete rattrape.

Retard dans la realisation de 4 tremies

Des travailleurs, des etudiants, impatients devant le retard des trois trains programmes pour cette matinee, racontent leur calvaire.

Les usagers entre le marteau et l'enclume

patent application based on the protective properties of astaxanthin to retard and prevent sunburn by UV light.

Cyanotech Files Patent Application for Prevention of Sunburn Using Astaxanthin

New research indicates cooks might retard lipid oxidation by seasoning their culinary fare with this spice.

Season gingerly to retard rancidity

Des retards de l'ordre de 40 minutes a une heure, ont ete enregistres dimanche matin, surtout a l'aeroport de Tunis-Carthage, au niveau des departs et des arrivees des vols, en raison de la mise en place d'un nouveau systeme radar, selon Fakher Abdelkefi, commandant d'aeroport, cite par l'agence TAP.

Tunis: Un nouveau systeme radar a l'origine de la perturbation du trafic aerien

Indeed, Notomi, Takasumi Tanabe, and their colleagues at NTT report, also in the January Nature Photonics, that they've developed a new photonic crystal that retards light more than 170 times as much as the 2005 IBM crystal did.

Loopy light: rings that delay photons may advance microchips

The constant presence of an excess pool of labor that is unskilled and untrained exacerbates the impact of unemployment on production and retards cyclical recoveries.

The effects of enforced leisure on development. (Research Notes)

It probably has something to do with the lack of mullet retards surfing tubes.

Jake Duncombe: "it's strawberry-blond"

La Cour des Comptes remarque cependant d'enormes retards dans la conclusion de ces operations, des retards qui arrivent a 12 mois.

Tunis: Plus de 3 milliards DT de redressements fiscaux a fin 2012

This greatly retards the atoms] ability to generate lipid-damaging free radicals, report Vercellotti and Allen J.

Crab-shell derivative retards rancidity

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