遅らす

おくらす
to retard
to delay

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おくらす, おくらせる【遅らす, 遅らせる】

delay; postpone 《one's departure》; slow 《progress》 down; hold 《sb》 up; make…slow [late]; defer 《a decision》; put…off; 《文》 retard; 〔戻す〕 put 《a clock》 back.

●時計を 1 時間遅らせる put back a clock [watch] one hour

・出発を 1 時間遅らせる delay [postpone, put off] one's departure for an hour

・夕食を 30 分遅らせる delay [postpone, put off] supper (for) half an hour; have [serve] supper thirty minutes later than planned.

●男はその時計を 15 分遅らせた. The man set his watch back fifteen minutes.

・故意に返事を遅らせたわけではありません. I did not delay answering [replying] deliberately.

・長い間の独裁体制[政治]がその国の民主化を遅らせた. The long years of dictatorship held up the democratization of that country.