Difference between Delay and Retard

Delay

Part of speech: noun

Definition: previously unexpected period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put off until a later time; to distract. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.

Example sentence: Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Retard

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinderTo put off; to postpone.To stay back.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: retardation; delaya person with mental retardationa stupid person, or one who is slow to learn