Historians say plagues and pestilence have reshaped countries before, changing politics, contributing to instability, retarding economic development and altering social relations.
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Retarding
Synonyms for "retarding" (25 found)
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20 entriesbiological processchemical kineticschemical processcoefficientdelaydevelopment regulationdevicedrug deliveryeffectforcegrowth controlhindranceinfluenceinterferencemeasurementmechanism
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10 entriesretarding actionretarding agentretarding deviceretarding effectretarding factorretarding factorsretarding fieldretarding forceretarding influenceretarding potential
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It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
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