Crossword-Solution: RETARDING 9 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Retarding p. pr. & vb. n. of Retard

We have 14 clues for the answer “RETARDING”

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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.
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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.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
Before Adam Jack London 1995
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.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996
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.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996

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…
Friedrich Nietzsche The Will to Power
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
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
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.
Conrad Black
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).