retard
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Retard the throttles to their full back position.
From Forbes • Aug. 27, 2013
Ah, happiest spot of earth! in this sweet place Love first beheld my condescending fair Retard her steps, to smile with courteous grace On me, and smiling glad the ambient air.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
But wherefore do I loiter here, and thus Retard my marriage by my own delay?
From The Comedies of Terence by Colman, George
Great gluts of people Retard the unwieldy show; whilst from the casements And houses' tops, ranks behind ranks close wedged Hang bellying o'er.
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
Sand grains should sugar in the natal dew The babe born to the desert, the sand storm Retard mid-waste my cowering caravans— "There are bees in this wall."
From North of Boston by Frost, Robert
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