(~ed)
1.
If something ~s a process, or the development of something, it makes it happen more slowly. (FORMAL)
Continuing violence will ~ negotiations over the country’s future.
= slow down
VERB: V n
2.
If you describe someone as a ~, you mean that they have not developed normally, either mentally or socially. (INFORMAL, OFFENSIVE)
What the hell do I want with an emotional ~?
N-COUNT disapproval