A spontaneous and thus not very sagacious act of vengeance, i.e. prematurely executed and without consideration of the consequences.
Etymology: A neologism contrived by merging the phonetic similar words retarded and retaliation.
1) How Austrian authorities reacted to the Sarajevo assassination in 1914 may well be described as one of the biggest retardiations in the history of mankind.
2) "My teacher caught me writing urban dictionary entries during class and took my thesaurus away, so I hit him in the face."
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