Arrest vs Retard - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between arrest and retard

is that arrest is to catch the attention of while retard is to put off; to postpone.

As nouns the difference between arrest and retard

is that arrest is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something while retard is retardation; delay.

As verbs the difference between arrest and retard

is that arrest is to stop the motion of (a person or animal) while retard is to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder.

arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A check, stop, an act or instance of something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

A device to physically arrest motion.

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

* Jeremy Taylor

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

(White)

Derived terms

* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

* Philips

Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .

(obsolete) To stay, remain.

(Spenser)

To stop (a process, course etc.).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:

To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

* Shakespeare

I arrest thee of high treason.

To catch the attention of.

* 1919 : :

There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

Derived terms

* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

Anagrams

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retard

English

(wikipedia retard)

Noun

(en noun)

Retardation; delay.

(slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.

Do all retards have a low I.Q.?

(slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.

Synonyms

* (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See also

Verb

(en verb)

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder

retard the march of an army

retard the motion of a ship

To put off; to postpone.

to retard the attacks of old age

to retard a rupture between nations

(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).

To decelerate; to slow down.

(obsolete) To stay back.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

Synonyms

* decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay back

Antonyms

* accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forward

Derived terms

* retarded

References

* IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs

Anagrams

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