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/rɪtˈaɪr/ /ritˈaɪr/ /rˌitˈaɪər/ Listen

Retire

verb

(past & past part. retired; pres. part. retiring)

Go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.

Withdraw from active participation. Synonym: withdraw.

Pull back or move away or backward. Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw. "The limo pulled away from the curb"

Withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds.

Break from a meeting or gathering. Synonyms: adjourn, withdraw. "The men retired to the library"

Make (someone) retire.

Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed).

Lose interest. Synonym: withdraw.

Cause to be out on a fielding play. Synonym: put out.

10.

Cause to get out. Synonym: strike out. "The runner was put out at third base"

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Prepare for sleep. Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"

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"Retire" Quotes from Famous Books

... this investigation some idea may be gathered from his own words, when, stating that for a season he was compelled to retire from the cause, he ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... interest in gospel work is not diminished. In the few years that may still remain to me of my earthly pilgrimage, I shall take a lively interest in those young brothers and sisters whom God has called to take the places of us who are being compelled to retire from active service. ...

— Trials and Triumphs of Faith • Mary Cole

... the diseased bodies of men, they also ministered to their diseased souls. With skilful hands they sought to arrest the progress of decay; but when all their remedies failed, they did not merely cease their efforts and retire—they turned to the pages of divine truth, and directed the gaze of the dying sufferers to Jesus Christ, the Great Physician of souls. When death had done its work, they did not quit the mourning household ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... all was given up for lost, Columbus had presence of mind enough to retire to his cabin and to write upon parchment a short account of ...

— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich

... little upon this point. He had obtained what he wanted. His fete would be made brilliant by Carmen's presence. He did not retire, however, and the girl saw that he had something else ...

— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina

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