Can and Retard

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Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.

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Retard and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Retard" instead a verb "Can".

Retard verb - To cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace.

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Can and retard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a verb "Retard".

Roper, the store manager, claims he can call Ash a "retard" because his gardener "is a huge one".

Source: Series / Ash vs. Evil Dead
World of Warcraft: any game mechanic that can kill a player who is standing still (or in some cases, not standing still!) is referred to as a "retard check", at least as long as there's some warning before it goes off.

Source: Yet Another Stupid Death
Juvenat treatments retard aging, but do not affect maturation—thus, nobles, Inquisitors, and other important people can appear to be in their thirties or forties at two to three hundred years of age.

Source: Immortality Begins at 20

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