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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"

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"

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"Retire" Quotes from Famous Books

... offering is made upon the completion of this song, after which both individuals retire to their respective habitations. Upon the following day, that being the one immediately preceding the day of ceremony, the candidate again repairs to the sudatory to take a last vapor bath, after the completion of which ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... I fondly concluded that my little devoir was finished for the day, and that I might now retire to collect my agitated nerves in quiet, but at the porch I was requested to visit an old woman who was lying in the poor-house, in the last stage of a dropsy. The only entrance to her chamber, or rather, ...

— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.

... crowds of people who were assembled there, as well as in the streets, although every one tried to make room for us, even the Prince crying out to try and clear the way. But at last the Prince himself was forced to retire on account of the great pressure of the crowd, and left us to enter with only a few others, and even then we had the greatest difficulty to get in. Once safely inside the Treasury we saw everything, which was a great pleasure, for there was an ...

— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright

... Ward's material harvest day was come. As Helen had told the Interpreter, the doctors were agreed that her father must give up everything in the nature of business and have absolute mental rest. The Mill owner must retire. ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... in the hallway of friend Afton's house, my mind seemed confused and full of uncertainty. I scarcely noted the name which friend Hicks told me belonged to the man he had seen his daughter walking with, and not until friend Afton called to the other woman that she should retire for the night did the similarity of the names bear upon me. The hireling minister was named Jordan, the demented woman's name was Jordan: it might be a casual coincidence, but the man seemed taking all away from me that had made my life pleasant and hopeful, while the woman said I gave ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

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