Crossword-Solution: RETARDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retarding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Retard |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RETARDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing delay | 2 answers |
| inhibiting | 31 answers |
| tying | 31 answers |
| bridling | 32 answers |
| qualifying | 33 answers |
| coercive | 34 answers |
| Hobbling | 35 answers |
| obstructive | 35 answers |
| prohibitive | 36 answers |
| Selective | 37 answers |
| concluding | 41 answers |
| controlling | 44 answers |
| governing | 47 answers |
| final | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETARDING (5)
The bowman could not travel at the pace set by Carthoris, whose muscles carried him with great rapidity over the face of the small planet, the force of gravity of which exerts so much less retarding power than that of the Earth.
The boat at last became so nearly free of the retarding mud and of the bank that Jane felt positive that she could pole it off into deeper water with one of the paddles which lay in the bottom of the rude craft.
Instead of qualifying nouns or verbs by the use of adjectives and adverbs, we qualified sounds by intonation, by changes in quantity and pitch, by retarding and by accelerating.
And so they plunged forward at reckless speed, their clothes, their hands, their faces torn by the retarding underbrush that reached forth to hinder them.
Swinging in mid-air, they hung tenaciously, their weight dragging down the creature’s head and so retarding its speed that before it had reached me it was almost stopped and devoting all its energies to attempting to scrape off its attackers with its forefeet.
Quotes with RETARDING (3)
The levelling of the European man is the great process which cannot be obstructed; it should even be accelerated. The necessity of cleaving gulfs, distance, order of rank, is therefore imperative — not the necessity of retarding this process. This homogenizing species requires justification as soon as it is attained: its justification is that it lies in serving a higher and sovereign race which stands upon the former and can raise itself this task only by doing this. Not mere…
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).