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/rɪtˈaɪrɪŋ/ /ritˈaɪərɪŋ/ /ritˈaɪrɪŋ/ Listen

Retiring

adjective

1.

Not arrogant or presuming. Synonym: unassuming. "A shy retiring girl"

2.

Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office. Synonyms: past, preceding.

3.

Reluctant to draw attention to yourself. Synonyms: reticent, self-effacing.

Retire

verb

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

1.

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

2.

Withdraw from active participation. Synonym: withdraw.

3.

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" Antonym: advance.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Make (someone) retire.

7.

Dispose of (something no longer useful or needed).

8.

Lose interest. Synonym: withdraw.

9.

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"

11.

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" Antonyms: get up, turn out.

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"Retiring" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calvin Gray strolled outdoors for a breath of fresh air before retiring. He glowed with the consciousness of a worthy deed well done. He had come to the Notch expecting to spend one night, but events of the last few hours had induced him to change his plans, and he now made up his mind to stay several days. He was burning ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... or 1846 that the Howitts made the acquaintance of Tennyson, whose poetry they had long admired. 'The retiring and meditative young poet, Alfred Tennyson, visited us,' relates Mary, 'and cheered our seclusion by the recitation of his exquisite poetry. He spent a Sunday night at our house, when we sat talking together till three in the morning. All the next day he remained ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... His baptism, immediately thereafter as Mark asserts, Jesus was constrained by the promptings of the Spirit to withdraw from men and the distractions of community life, by retiring into the wilderness where He would be free to commune with His God. So strong was the influence of the impelling force that He was led thereby, or, as stated by the evangelist, driven, into solitary seclusion, in which ...

— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage

... noted for the zeal with which they persecuted the Quakers and hung the witches. The head of the family was a sea captain, and for many generations the men of the family followed the same avocation, "a gray-haired shipmaster, in each generation, retiring from the quarter-deck to the homestead, while a boy of fourteen took the hereditary place before the mast, confronting the salt spray and the gale, which had blustered against his ...

— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... visitor at Simpson's, and the column for a long time was not favourable to our chess interests. Foreign influence and views became far too conspicuously manifested. The great English chess players were of a retiring nature after the disappearance of the powerful Staunton and Captain Kennedy, and the retirement of the genial McDonnell; Boden was as reserved as Buckle or as Morphy, Bird cared only for his game. Such eggs of chess patronage as continued ...

— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird

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