- Delay or hold back progress
- Hold back
- Impede
- Inhibit
- Keep
- Keep back or hinder
- To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from
progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to
retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed
to accelerate.
- Choke
- Inhibit
- tuck
- To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to
bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
- Behind it, I become restrained
- Prevented
- Self-conscious
- of Inhibit